REPORT TITLE:
Motor Vehicle Insurance


DESCRIPTION:
Authorizes chiropractors to prescribe physical therapy or massage
therapy for personal injury protection benefits under the motor
vehicle insurance laws.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to remedy the motor
 
 2 vehicle insurance law on personal injury protection benefits by
 
 3 restoring to chiropractors their original authority to directly
 
 4 refer patients to providers of physical therapy and massage
 
 5 therapy.
 
 6      SECTION 2.  Section 431:10C-103.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes,
 
 7 is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
 
 8      "(a)  Personal injury protection benefits, with respect to
 
 9 any accidental harm, means all appropriate and reasonable
 
10 treatment and expenses necessarily incurred as a result of the
 
11 accidental harm and which are substantially comparable to the
 
12 requirements for prepaid health care plans, including medical,
 
13 hospital, surgical, professional, nursing, advanced practice
 
14 nursing recognized pursuant to chapter 457, dental, optometric,
 
15 chiropractic, ambulance, prosthetic services, products and
 
16 accommodations furnished, x-ray, psychiatric, physical therapy
 
17 pursuant to prescription by a medical doctor[,] or a
 
18 chiropractor, occupational therapy, rehabilitation, and
 
19 therapeutic massage by a licensed massage therapist when
 

 
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 1 prescribed by a medical doctor[.] or a chiropractor."
 
 2      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 3 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 4      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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 6                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________