STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1147-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2108

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2108, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a tiered level of health care premium assistance for individuals depending on their family's income level up to three hundred percent of the federal poverty level.

IMUAlliance, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the qualifying income ranges to unspecified percentages of the federal poverty level; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to promote 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 S.B. No. 2108, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2108, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair