STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2211
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2219
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fourth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2008
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2219 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to extend post-partum and interconception care from eight weeks to six months for all women of childbearing age who participate in Hawaii's QUEST program.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Medical Service Association; Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies of Hawaii; the March of Dimes Foundation; and three private citizens. Comments were submitted by the Department of Human Services.
Your Committee finds that this measure will support the State's interest in ensuring that women receive appropriate interconception care following a pregnancy.
The Hawaii Medical Service Association has suggested to your Committee that the language in the measure concerning the funding of services to QUEST members may be problematic, as there is no actual language requiring that funding be passed on to participating QUEST health plans to implement services.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by adding language to ensure that the Department of Human Services compensates the QUEST health plans for provided services.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2219, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2219, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing,
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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