STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1516

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1120
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1120 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERSONAL CARE SERVICES
     PAYMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this administration measure is to eliminate
Medicaid reimbursement for the provision of personal care
services under Section 346-64, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committee finds that Chapter 346D, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, entitled "Long Term Care," authorizes the Department of
Human Services to administer the Medicaid home- and community-
based waiver programs.  Your Committee further finds that Section
346-64, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is a duplicative authorizing
statute, and therefore is unnecessary.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1120 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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