STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1009-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 408

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 408, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Authorize the Department of Health to certify, in its discretion, community care foster family homes for a fourth adult who is a Medicaid recipient and has documented housing instability, under certain conditions; and

(2) Require the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness; Department of Human Services; and Department of Health.

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. 408, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair