Bill Text: HI SB1205 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Health Insurance
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1205 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1205-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 336
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 1205
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. 1205 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR UNEMPLOYED PERSONS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to provide a safety net for individuals who have lost their employer based health care coverage by establishing a temporary health insurance program.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Medical Service Association, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union- Local 42, and one individual. The Department of Health submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.
Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committees find that by assisting those in need through the maintenance of health insurance, the economic impact of having a large population of medically uninsured persons will be lessened.
Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the appropriation provision to require that only monies received by the State and deposited into the state general fund pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 may be expended for the temporary health insurance program.
Your Committees have further amended this measure by 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. 1205, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1205, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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