STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1059-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2775

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2775 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SECTION 1332 STATE INNOVATION WAIVER,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the State to submit a state innovation waiver proposal to the United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services and the Treasury requesting the waiver of certain provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 that may undermine gains made under the State's Prepaid Health Care Act.  This measure also authorizes the State to implement the waiver on or after January 1, 2017, upon approval by the federal government.

The Chair of the Hawaii ACA State Innovation Waiver Task Force; Department of Health; Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; State Chief Information Officer; Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; The Queen's Health Systems; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; ILWU Local 142; and Hawaii Medical Service Association testified in support of this measure.   

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2775  and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair