STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1665-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2845

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 3

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2845, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPOINTMENT OF EXEMPT PERSONNEL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FOR THE STATE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Director of Human Services to carry out the functions of the state medical assistance programs by authorizing the Director to:

     (1)  Appoint and employ a division administrator, branch office administrators, a finance officer, and a research officer exempt from the civil service law under Chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS); and

     (2)  Appoint a privacy and security compliance officer, health information technology officer, physicians, pharmacists, and dentists and temporarily exempt these positions from Chapter 76, HRS, for three years.  

The Department of Human Services provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Authorizing the Director of Human Services to appoint and employ only a division administrator and a finance officer, exempt from Chapter 76, HRS; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2845, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2845, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair