STAND. COM. REP. NO. 198

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1108

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 1108 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DESIGNEES FOR THE DIRECTORS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, OF HEALTH, OF HUMAN SERVICES, AND OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Directors of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Health, Human Services, and Labor and Industrial Relations to delegate voting authority to their designees for a specified meeting or meetings of the Hawaii Health Insurance Exchange.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Primary Care Association.

 

     Your Committee finds that because the Hawaii Health Insurance Exchange, also known as the Hawaii Health Connector, was established as a Hawaii nonprofit corporation, more specific language is required regarding designees for the directors of state agencies who serve as ex-officio voting members of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Health Connector.  This measure provides the necessary flexibility for the directors of state agencies to voice their votes through their designees when they are unable to attend meetings of the Board of Directors, ensures that a voting quorum can be met, and facilitates the timely development and implementation of the Hawaii Health Insurance Exchange.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1108 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair