Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 789 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to enable the Department of Health (DOH) to provide home- and community-based services for the developmentally disabled or mentally retarded. This bill also transfers funds from DOH to the Department of Human Services (DHS) to be used as the State match to claim federal reimbursements for Medicaid eligible services for the Home- and Community-Based Services-Developmentally Disabled/Mentally Retarded Waiver Program.

DOH, DHS, the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Disability and Communication Access Board, The Arc in Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and Kona Krafts testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 789, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 789, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.