STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1641-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: S.B. No. 2330
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) The use of revenues derived from the Hospital Sustainability Fee to enhance reimbursement rates and the drawdown of matched federal funds;
(2) Hospital Sustainability Fee schedules, payment dates, and rates; and
(3) The applicability of the Hospital Sustainability Program to various types of hospitals, including certain children's, rehabilitation, and psychiatric hospitals.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation out of the hospital sustainability program special fund from $70,000,000 to an unspecified amount; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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