Bill Text: HI HB2084 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Federal Disproportionate Share Hospital Allowance; State Match
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-07-07 - (S) Became law without the Governor's signature, Act 203, 7/6/2010, (Gov. Msg. No. 695). [HB2084 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2084-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 27-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: H.B. No. 2084
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2084 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FEDERAL DISPROPORTIONATE SHARE HOSPITAL FUNDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to meet rising health care costs and ensure that Hawaii's residents have continued access to quality health care by appropriating state funds to maximize the availability of the federal disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allowance. Specifically, this bill appropriates $12,654,867:
(1) For fiscal year (FY) 2010 to match the federal DSH allowance allocated to Hawaii; and
(2) A portion of which may be used to obtain matching federal DSH allowance for prior FY expenditures by the State.
Kaiser Permanente, The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and AARP testified in support of this bill. The Department of Human Services opposed this measure.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2084 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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