Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2861 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the federal revenue maximization special fund to collect and disburse revenue for medicaid-eligible health services provided by the Department of Education to public school children.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Education and the Department of Human Services.

Your Committees find that this measure ensures that moneys generated by the federal revenue maximization program will be dedicated to support the Department of Education's efforts to recover reimbursements for medicaid-eligible services provided to Hawaii's school-aged children.

Your Committees have amended this measure by amending the purpose section to indicate that moneys collected under the program currently are deposited into the general fund and that there is no assurance that the funds will be dedicated to the program. Your Committees also have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Education and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2861, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2861, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.