STAND. COM. REP. NO. 467

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1053
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1053 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.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Human Services.

     Your Committee finds that Section 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 Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1053 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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