HB 646 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME.

Summary

Requires the Department of Human Services to automatically enroll, or authorize the Social Security Administration to automatically enroll, in the State's Medicaid program any individual in the State who receives federal Supplemental Security Income benefits. Requires reports to the Legislature. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 17, 2025 Last action Feb 10, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB646 → HB646_HD1 · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a Microsoft Word file metadata format, while the core policy content regarding automatic Medicaid enrollment for SSI recipients remained substantively unchanged. The only meaningful policy modification is the effective date, which was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000', making the law effectively permanent.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from 'upon approval' to 'July 1, 3000', removing any sunset provision and making the automatic enrollment requirement permanent.

TECHNICAL

The document underwent significant structural changes from a plain text legislative format to a Microsoft Word metadata format, including the addition of file headers, metadata fields, and formatting codes that do not affect the substantive policy.

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Committee

Feb 10, 2025

Committee

Reported from HSH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 256) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to HSH, FIN, referral sheet 2

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

9 primary · 0 co-sponsors