STAND. COM. REP. NO.218
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1353
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1353 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR MEDICAID,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to provide the Medicaid program with sufficient funds to reimburse its health care providers for fiscal year 2002-2003.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Human Services and the Health Care Association of Hawaii.
Your Committee finds that the expenditures for the State's Medicaid program have increased far above the budgeted levels for fiscal year 2002-2003. This increase is attributable to an unanticipated increase in the number of people served after September 11, 2001, and increases in the cost of prescription drugs.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1353 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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