STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2842
Honolulu, Hawaii
S.D. 1
President of the Senate
Twenty-Ninth State Legislature
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2819 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to provide additional funds for the Department of Public Safety so that it can reimburse the Department of Human Services for the increased costs of hospitalization and specialty out-of-facility care and to cover the increased costs of pharmacy services.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Ho'omanapono Political Action Committee.
Your Committee finds that, due to the unexpected increased costs for specialty out-of-facility care and hospitalization of inmates and increased costs for pharmacy services, a critical funding shortage now exists that will prevent the Department of Public Safety from meeting its payment obligations to the Department of Human Services and its pharmacy services provider for the remainder of fiscal year 2017-2018. Your Committee further finds that this appropriation will ensure that the Department of Public Safety will be able to reimburse the Department of Human Services for hospitalization, specialty out-of-facility care, and pharmacy services.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation from $2,690,500 to an unspecified amount; and
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.
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. 2819, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2819, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair |
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