STAND. COM. REP. NO. 852-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 3016
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
3016 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOW-
     INCOME PERSONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $1,000,000 to
raise the income eligibility of the medically needy program to
133 percent of the assistance allowance.

     Life Foundation supported this bill.  The Department of
Human Services supported the intent of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by reducing the
appropriation to $1 to facilitate further discussion.

     Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for
clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
3016, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3016, H.D. 1.


 
 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair