Bill Text: HI HB1958 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Dental Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-14 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and C. Lee, M. Lee excused (2). [HB1958 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1958-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  354-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1958

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1958 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and dental service organizations from requiring participating provider dentists to provide services to enrolled participants at fees set by the mutual benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and dental service organizations, except for covered services.

 

     Hawaii Dental Association and an individual testified in support of this measure.  Hawaii Medical Service Association and Hawaii Dental Service testified in opposition to the measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs commented on the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage continued discussion on the measure.

 

    

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1958, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1958, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair