Bill Text: HI SB1102 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Emergency appropriation; Department of Human Services ($)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-24 - Act 039, 4/23/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1139). [SB1102 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1102-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 109

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1102

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1102 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation of $43,000,000 for fiscal year 2012-2013 out of the hospital sustainability program special fund to be used in accordance with the purposes of the hospital sustainability program special fund, including the reimbursement of monies advanced in fiscal year 2012-2013 from the health care payments program.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that the hospital sustainability program was established through Act 217, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.  The program allows the Department of Human Services to assess fees on hospitals and utilize the monies received to draw down federal dollars for supplemental payments to hospitals in order to help offset their uncompensated care.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the Department of Human Services has used monies out of Medicaid's health care payments program to make the supplemental payments so that payments to the private hospitals would not be delayed.  Without the authorization to expend monies out of the hospital sustainability program special fund, the Department Human Services will not be able to continue making supplemental payments to hospitals and will face a shortfall for the monies it advanced in good faith and in the spirit of the intent of Act 217, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1102 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair