STAND. COM. REP. NO. 836________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 622
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
622, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase access to breast
cancer screening for women in Hawaii by decreasing the time
interval between required mammographic screening coverage from
every two years to every year for women ages 40 and over under
health care services policies, contracts, plans, and agreements.

     The Departments of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Health,
the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, the Hawaii
Nurses' Association, and one individual submitted testimony in
support of this measure.  Kaiser Permanente submitted comments on
this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the mandatory baseline mammogram screening for
          women 35 through 39 years of age; and

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

 
 
 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
622, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 622, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair