STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1228

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   S.B. No. 285

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 285, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program by extending the program for two additional years and appropriating funds therefor from the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program Special Fund.

The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, The Queen's Health Systems, One Kalakaua Senior Living, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and Hawaii Pacific Health supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to facilitate further discussion.

     Should your Committee on Finance deliberate on this measure, your Committees respectfully request that it insert an appropriation amount of $14,000,000 for the Nursing Facility Sustainability Program.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 285, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 285, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair

____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Chair