Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2338 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation of $6,807,562 for the Title XIX Medicaid Home and Community-based Waiver Program for the developmentally disabled or mentally retarded.

The Department of Human Services, Department of Health, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Attorney General, and Hawaii Disability Rights Center testified in support of this bill.

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. 2338 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.