Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 18 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish duties and obligations for pharmaceutical benefit management companies that administer or manage prescription drug benefit coverage to their clients.

ILWU Local 142 and the Hawaii State AFL-CIO submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Hawaii Medical Association and Medco Health Solutions, Inc., opposed this measure.

The opponents of this measure stated that it unnecessarily expands the scope of government in the medical marketplace. Your Committee respectively requests the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce to further explore this issue.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 18 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.