Bill Text: HI HB2154 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Care Case Management; Task Force

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-11 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting no (0) and none excused (0). [HB2154 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2154-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  298-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2154

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2154 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE CASE MANAGEMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to protect the public health and safety by convening a temporary Health Care Case Management Task Force (Task Force) to:

 

     (1)  Research the quality of care provided by case managers and case management agencies; and

 

     (2)  Ensure that appropriate standards of practice are consistently followed.

 

     A concerned individual supported this bill.  The National Association of Social Workers and Catholic Charities Hawaii testified in support of this bill with amendments.  The Department of Human Services testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the membership of the Task Force from 11 to ten members;

 

     (2)  Removing the Director of Health, Director of Human Services, and the Insurance Commissioner, or their designees as members of the Task Force;

 

     (3)  Including two additional members representing case management agencies one each to be appointed by the Speaker of the House and President of the Senate; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2154, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2154, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

 

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair