STAND. COM. REP. NO.  340

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 943

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, 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 moneys collected by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as federally-imposed civil monetary penalty funds when health care facilities or agencies do not meet Medicare certification requirements as determined by the Department of Health when it conducts Medicare certification surveys and complaint investigations on health care facilities or agencies in the State.

The Department of Health testified in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 943 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair