STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1483-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2775

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. 2775 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SECTION 1332 STATE INNOVATION WAIVER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the State to submit a state innovation waiver proposal to the United States Secretaries of Health and Human Services and the Treasury requesting the waiver of certain provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 that may undermine gains made under the State's Prepaid Health Care Act.  This measure also authorizes the State to implement the waiver on or after January 1, 2017, upon approval by the federal government.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Affordable Care Act State Innovation Waiver Task Force; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Medical Service Association; Hawaii Primary Care Association; Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii; and Chamber of Commerce Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

     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. 2775 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair