STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2901

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2798

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2798, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES MEDICAID WAIVER ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMING SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a special fund, to be administered by the Department of Health, for the administration of the Medicaid Section 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services Waiver for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and the Arc.

Your Committee finds that authorizing the creation of the special fund proposed by this measure will help the Department of Health properly and efficiently administer the federal waiver and continue serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2798, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2798, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair