STAND. COM. REP. NO.  747

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1469

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1469 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to make an emergency appropriation to the Department of Health (DOH) the Developmental Disabilities Division to meet State approved target numbers under the current Medicaid Home and Community Based Services Waiver Program to reasonably admit individuals with developmental disabilities or mental retardation into the program to fulfill the obligations under the settlement agreement in HDRC v. State of Hawaii, United States District Court, Civil No. 03-00524 HG-KSC, and to comply with the United States Supreme Court's Olmstead decision and the requirements of Chapter 333F, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     The State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported this bill.  DOH submitted comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1469 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair