CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 4-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2012

RE:    H.B. No. 905

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

       C.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 905, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DELIVERY OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this measure in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to increase efficiencies in the delivery of health and human services and to eliminate gaps in services by requiring the Director of Health and the Director of Human Services to collaborate with contracted health and human services providers to develop and update annually a health and human services delivery plan.  This measure also furthers health and wellness initiatives in the State by requiring the Department of Health to create a workplace wellness pilot program.

     Recognizing the time considerations involved in agency and provider collaboration in developing a sound health and human services delivery plan, your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by deleting its substance, and inserting therefor, provisions that amend section 103F-203, Hawaii Revised Statutes (relating to the collaboration of providers in an agency's effort to plan or purchase health and human services), to:

(1)  Require, prior to a state agency's release of a Request for Proposal for the competitive purchase of services, at the request of the agency, provider participation in the agency's development of a delivery plan for health and human services, including:

(a)  Evaluating efficiencies in delivering existing services and recommending strategies for eliminating gaps in service delivery; and

(b)  Recommending cost-efficient and effective service alternatives; and

(2)  Authorize a state agency to include a provision in a contract awarded under the State's Purchase of Health and Human Services law, a requirement that the provider participate in planning in the agency's development of a delivery plan for health and human services, provided that:

(a)  Notice of the requirement is provided in the Request for Proposals; and

(b)  Provider participation in the agency's development of a delivery plan does not disqualify the provider from submitting responses to Requests for Proposals.

     This measure was also amended by changing its effective date to July 1, 2012.  One technical, nonsubstantive amendment was also made for accuracy.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 905, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 905, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

______________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair	____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair
______________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Co-Chair	____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Co-Chair
	____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Co-Chair