STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1423

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 1102

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1102 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate emergency funding to the Department of Human Services to ensure:

     (1)  Continued timely payments to hospitals in the State; and

     (2)  There is no disruption in the provision of medically-necessary services to Medicaid program recipients.

The Department of Human Services, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and Hawaii Pacific Health testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1102 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair