STAND. COM. REP. NO. 796-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2215

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2215, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to increase the funding of certain Medicaid home and community-based services and require the Department of Human Services to obtain the maximum federal matching funds available for the expenditure.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaiʻi Friends of Civil Rights; AARP Hawaiʻi; Adult Foster Homecare Association of Hawaii; United Community Healthcare of Hawaii; and nine individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services.

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. 2215, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair