STAND. COM. REP. NO. 972

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1349

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1349, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services to authorize Medicaid coverage through the Children's Health Insurance Program to income-qualified pregnant persons and children regardless of immigration status.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one member of the Hawai‘i County Council; Indivisible Hawai‘i Healthcare Team; Ka Ohana O Na Pua; Save Medicaid Hawaii; Hawai‘i Friends of Civil Rights; AlohaCare; Hawai‘i Coalition for Immigrant Rights; Hawai‘i Women Lawyers; and numerous individuals. Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from numerous individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services and The Legal Clinic.

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. 1349, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair