STAND. COM. REP. NO. 566

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 1373

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1373 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE ON AGING ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMING SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify the allowable revenues to be deposited into the Executive Office on Aging Administrative Claiming Special Fund and the purposes for which the fund may be used.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health Executive Office on Aging.

Your Committee finds that Executive Office on Aging programs are eligible to receive Medicaid administrative claiming moneys. However, existing state law restricts the use of certain Medicaid administrative claiming moneys to the operation of the Executive Office on Aging's aging and disability resource centers. This measure removes this unnecessary restriction to allow revenues from certain Medicaid administrative claiming moneys to be used for any Executive Office on Aging program.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an effective date of December 31, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

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. 1373, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1373, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair