Bill Text: HI HB1207 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Human Services Compliance; Affordable Care Act

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 240, on 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1343). [HB1207 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1207-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  580

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1207

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1207 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve health care services by requiring the Department of Human Services to submit interim reports to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2014, 2015, and 2016, and a final report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Session of 2017 on its compliance with the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 as it relates to Medicare and Medicaid.

 

     The Department of Human Services and AlohaCare provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1207, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1207, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair