STAND. COM. REP. NO.  870

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 943

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 943 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE CIVIL MONETARY PENALTY SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish the Civil Monetary Penalty Special Fund to retain civil monetary penalty funds collected by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services when health care facilities do not meet Medicare certification requirements, pursuant to Department of Health Medicare certification surveys or complaint investigations.

The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes 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 H.B. No. 943, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 943, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair