STAND. COM. REP. 497
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 1361
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1361 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEDICAID PRESCRIPTION DRUG EXPANSION PROGRAM,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to allow the income eligibility limit for the Medicaid Prescription Drug Expansion Program (Program) to be lower than 300 percent of the federal poverty level.
The ILWU Local 142 supported this measure. The Department of Human Services provided comments.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Deleting the appropriation amount appropriated in fiscal year 2002-2003;
(2) Establishing a sunset of July 1, 2006, for the Program; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, conformity, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1361, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1361, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
____________________________ MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair |
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