STAND. COM. REP. NO. 674

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1058
                                        S.D. 2




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 S.B.
No. 1058, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECOVERY OF MEDICAL
     PAYMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration bill is to allow the
Department of Human Services to subrogate against a third-party
recovery on any claim brought by an injured person who receives
medical assistance.

     Your Committee finds that medical assistance recipients who
receive a third-party recovery should repay the State the amount
of the costs of their medical treatment resulting from an
accident.  This measure creates a right of subrogation for the
Department of Human Services for that purpose.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has made
technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity
and style.

     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 S.B. No.
1058, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass

 
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Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1058,
S.D. 2.

                                 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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