Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1060, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Services to reimburse federally-qualified health centers and rural health clinics in accordance with the Social Security Act.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Hawaii Primary Care Association, the Community Clinic of Maui, the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Papa Ola Lokahi, the Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Kokua Kalihi Valley, and one individual. The Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Human Services testified in opposition to the measure.

Your Committees find that this measure will support policy and payment protections for federally qualified health centers under Medicaid.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1060, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1060, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.