STAND. COM. REP. NO.  343-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2189

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2189 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require Medicaid home and community-based waiver programs to allow family members hired and directed by the waiver program individual to provide specific approved in-home care services to the individual.

The Hawaii Disability Rights Center supported the measure.  The Department of Human Services opposed the measure.  The Ohana Health Plan offered comments on the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding a severability clause;

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion of the matter;

     (3)  Sunsetting the measure on July 1, 2015; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2189, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2189, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair