STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2698

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3176
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 3176, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the right to medical
and other insurance benefits to reciprocal beneficiaries.

     Specifically, this bill extends coverage under the laws
governing health insurers, mutual benefit societies, health
maintenance organizations, motor vehicle insurers, and life
insurers to reciprocal beneficiaries of insured or covered
individuals.  This bill also requires the Public Employees Health
Fund to establish a reciprocal beneficiary family coverage health
benefits plan.

     Your Committee finds that this bill recognizes the
importance of health and insurance coverage for all individuals
in the State, regardless of their status as reciprocal
beneficiaries, and provides for equal access to health care and
other benefits for reciprocal beneficiaries.

     Your Committee has amended this bill to correct one error in
section 431:10C-305(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, in which

 
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language in the bill did not match the printed version of the
Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3176, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3176, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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