STAND. COM. REP. NO.  148

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 707

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 707 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE AUDITOR,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Auditor to conduct a financial audit of all federal funds designated for health care and received by the Department of Human Services.

     Testimony in support of this bill was received from Hawaii Pacific Health.  Testimony in opposition to the measure was received from the Department of Human Services.  The Department stated that its opposition is based upon the State's current fiscal situation although it supports the intent of the measure.

     Your Committees find that the State's current fiscal situation makes it particularly critical to ensure that precious federal dollars are being used for the purposes intended and subject to appropriate controls.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 707 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair