STAND. COM. REP. 430

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 671

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 671 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUEST,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to remove financial disincentives for health plans and providers to actively reach out to high-risk populations, including high-risk pregnant women and girls, native Hawaiians with early onset of chronic diabetes, and chronic substance abusers.

The Department of Human Services opposed this bill.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Removing the appropriation section; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, consistency, and conformity.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 671, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 671, 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 Housing and Health,

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair

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MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair