STAND. COM. REP. NO.  540-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2717

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2717 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Director of Human Services to adopt rules that apply annual cost of living increases to the income and asset thresholds for Medicaid eligibility.

The Department of Human Services commented on this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2717 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

____________________________

DEE MORIKAWA, Chair