STAND. COM. REP. NO. 801

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: H.B. No. 541

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 541, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish the State Payor Committee to implement a unified framework for tracking, coordinating, and guiding the purchase of behavioral health or substance abuse services across the continuum of care;

(2) Require executive state agencies and programs that purchase behavioral health- or substance abuse-related social services to coordinate with the State Payor Committee and consider the recommendations and payor framework of the State Payor Committee when purchasing the services; and

(3) Require community or private organizations that purchase services for behavioral health or substance abuse, at the request of any state funding agency, to disclose the source of any other governmental level funding the organizations receive for performing the services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Mayor of the County of Maui. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from PHOCUSED. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services, Department of Health, State Procurement Office, The Queen's Health Systems, and Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 541, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair