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. 668 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to maximize federal funds for outreach, improvements, and enrollment for families in medical assistance programs.

The Department of Human Services opposed this measure.

Your Committees note that for every $1 appropriated for the purposes of this measure, the State will receive $9 in federal funds.

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. 668 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.