SB 1564 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO MEDICAID.

Summary

Appropriates funds to the Department of Human Services to increase the funding of certain Medicaid home- and community-based services, including adult day programs and residential services offered in community care foster family homes and expanded adult residential care homes. Effective 12/31/2050. (SD1)

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 22, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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What changed between versions

SB1564 → SB1564_SD1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was renumbered from SB 1564 to SB 1564 SD1 and includes metadata from a state legislative system. The substantive policy content remains largely unchanged, with the primary modifications being formatting corrections, removal of extraneous system artifacts, and a change in the effective date from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2050.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; it continues to address Medicaid funding for home and community-based services for elderly and disabled residents.

TIMELINE

The effective date of the Act was changed from July 1, 2025 to December 31, 2050, which appears to be an error or placeholder rather than a substantive policy change.

TECHNICAL

The bill number was updated from SB 1564 to SB 1564 SD1 to reflect its status as a Senate Draft version.

Multiple system-generated artifacts, page headers, and metadata lines were removed to clean up the document formatting.

Text formatting and spacing were corrected throughout the document, including fixing character encoding issues and standardizing line breaks.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from HHS (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 504) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Feb 5, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HHS were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) San Buenaventura, Aquino, Hashimoto, Keohokalole; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.

upper

Jan 31, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HHS has scheduled a public hearing on 02-05-25 1:00PM; Conference Room 225 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to HHS, WAM.

upper

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and passed First Reading.

upper

Jan 22, 2025

Introduced

Pending Introduction.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors