Report Title:

Keiki Care

Description:

Amends the Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, which established the Hawaii children's health care program, to extend the program for three more years and require reporting to Legislature prior to the 2010 and 2011 Regular Sessions.  Appropriates $1.  Effective 07/01/2050.  (SD2)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	989
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 2

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, as amended by Act 239, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008, is amended as follows:

     1.  By amending subsection (a) of section 3 to read:

     "(a)  There is established the Hawaii children's health care program as a temporary [three-year] pilot program to provide health care coverage to uninsured children who live in Hawaii.  The department of human services shall provide health care coverage through a public-private partnership, established as a contract to provide health and human services pursuant to chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, between the department and one or more managed care plans operating in the state under chapter 432, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that offers accident and health or sickness insurance plans."

     2.  By amending subsection (i) of section 3 to read:

     "(i)  The department of human services and any participating managed care plan shall report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the start of the [2008] 2010 and [2009] 2011 regular sessions on:

     (1)  Any problems experienced with the program involving crowding out eligible participants;

     (2)  Instances of people canceling their previous coverage to receive this free coverage;

     (3)  The amount of funding used and for what purposes;

     (4)  Any other problems encountered in the administration of the program; [and]

     (5)  Any proposed legislation[.]; and

(6) Any proposals on funding sources other than the State."

     3.  By amending section 14 to read:

     "SECTION 14.  This Act shall take effect [upon] on July 1, 2007; provided that on June 30, 2010, with the exception of section 3, this Act shall be repealed and section 346-59.4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it read on the day before the effective date of this Act[.]; and provided further that on June 30, 2012, section 3 of this Act shall be repealed."

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009-2010 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011 for the Hawaii children's health care program established under section 3 of Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.