Bill Text: HI SB1077 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Preventative Health Care Task Force; Health Insurance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1077 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1077-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 583

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1077

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1077 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to encourage health insurance providers to offer preventative health care plans to its members, enrollees, or new applicants that cover preventative health care services by establishing a temporary Preventative Health Care Task Force.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Employees Government Association.  Testimony was received by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs supporting the intent of the measure.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by Hawaii Medical Service Association.  Comments and suggestions on this measure were submitted by the Department of Health and the Hawaii Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition.

 

     Written testimony presented to your Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that the provision of preventative health care will reduce overall health care costs, particularly addressing diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, that are either preventable or reversible.  Your Committees further find that the Hawaii Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition Healthcare Task Force has been working on goals to "increase the engagement of health providers in health promotion" and that a representative from this task force would be a beneficial component to the membership of the task force established in this Act.

 

     Accordingly, your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Including in the task force membership a representative from a local health insurance provider and a representative from the Hawaii Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition Healthcare Task Force; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1077, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1077, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair