Bill Text: HI HB2206 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Savings Accounts; High-Deductible Health Plans; Task Force

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-10 - (H) Re-referred to HLT, FIN, referral sheet 26 [HB2206 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2206-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  29-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2206

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2206 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve and expand health care plan options in Hawaii by establishing the Health Savings Accounts Assessment Task Force (Task Force) to:

 

     (1)  Study the current state of health savings accounts options in Hawaii's health insurance market;

 

     (2)  Establish a plan of action to encourage and expand the use of health savings accounts in Hawaii;

 

     (3)  Identify and recruit health plans that may help expand the availability of health savings accounts in Hawaii; and

 

     (4)  Assess the potential economic impact, including costs and benefits, of expanding health savings accounts options in Hawaii, and estimate the potential savings for individuals and employers who are offered health savings accounts.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and a concerned individual supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Requiring the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to appoint the Task Force members by January 1, 2011;

 

(2)  Reducing the number of Task Force members from 20 to 13 members;

 

(3)  Clarifying that two of the members must be from the banking industry and two members will be from community not-for-profit organizations;

 

(4)  Providing that the Task Force will cease to exist on December 31, 2011;

 

(5)  Extending the date upon which the Task Force will provide its findings and recommendations to the Legislature to no later than 20 days prior to the 2012 Regular Session;

 

(6)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(7)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2206, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2206, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

 

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

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair