Bill Text: HI SB1240 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Keiki Dental Health Coverage; Health Connector
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-01 - The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [SB1240 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1240-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1179
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: S.B. No. 1240
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 1240, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PEDIATRIC DENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee notes the Hawaii Health Connector's concern that this measure appears to impose an enforcement or regulatory role upon the Connector that is beyond the scope of its purpose as a facilitator and portal.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Instead requiring the Hawaii Health Connector to provide information on the requirement that all individuals under age 19 have coverage with all essential health benefits under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including pediatric dental coverage;
(2) Deleting language requiring the Hawaii Health Connector to alert and require individuals who do not have such coverage to reselect a qualified plan including pediatric dental coverage or add a qualified dental plan to the purchase; and
(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1240, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1240, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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