STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1480

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 933

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

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. 933, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRICARE PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure the availability of high-quality, low-cost health care services to members of the uniformed services and their families by making permanent the state general excise tax exclusion for amounts received by a managed care support contractor of the TRICARE program for the actual cost or advancement to third-party health care providers, pursuant to a contract with the United States for the administration of the TRICARE program. 

The Tax Foundation of Hawaii and UnitedHealthcare, Military and Veterans Services commented on the 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. 933, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, 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