STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1191-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2083

      S.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 Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2083, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to be expended in fiscal year 2012-2013 by the Department of Human Services to match the federal medicaid disproportionate share hospital allowance.

The Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Kaiser Permanente Hawaii; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; and The Queen's Health Systems supported the measure.  The Department of Human Services offered comments on the measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2083, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair