STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2154

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3257

       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. 3257 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form measure is to effectuate its title.

     Your Committee has deleted the contents of this measure and inserted provisions to require the Department of Human Services to provide presumptive eligibility to Medicaid or QUEST eligible waitlisted patients.

     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. 3257, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3257, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing,

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair