STAND. COM. REP. NO.  944

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 933

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred S.B. No. 933, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRICARE PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure the availability of high-quality, low-cost health care services to members of the uniformed services and their families.  Specifically, this bill extends the state general excise tax exclusion for amounts received by a managed care support contractor of the TRICARE program for the actual cost or advancement to third-party health care providers, pursuant to a contract with the United States for the administration of the TRICARE program.

 

     The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and United Healthcare-Military and Veterans Services testified in support of this measure.  The Tax Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 933, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Health.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

 

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K. MARK TAKAI, Chair