STAND. COM. REP. NO. 132-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1894

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1894 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish and appropriate funds for a two-year pilot project that authorizes the Department of Human Services to contract with an individual to serve as a capture manager, who shall be responsible for securing grants and other funding opportunities from public and private sources on behalf of the Department.

The Department of Human Services, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and two individuals supported this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1894, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1894, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair