STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1475

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 174
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 174 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate matching funds
for the federal Children's Health Insurance Program for fiscal
years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.

     Your Committee finds that the federal program expands health
care coverage to low-income children who are uninsured.  In order
to participate in the program and receive federal funding, the
State must provide a sixty-five per cent match of the federal
fund allotment.  The federal government has committed $9,900,000
to the State annually for federal fiscal years 1998-2000.  The
required state match for each federal fiscal year is $4,800,000.
Your Committee further notes that a federal fiscal year overlaps
rather than coincides with the State's fiscal year.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
appropriation from a blank amount to $1 for each of the next two
fiscal years for the purposes of continued deliberation and
recalculation on this matter.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 174, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 174, S.D. 1.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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