Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 157 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to health.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language that requires health insurance plans for groups of more than fifty persons and that provide pregnancy-related benefits, to include coverage for the medically necessary expenses of infertility diagnosis and treatment, subject to an exemption for health plans provided to their employees by religious employers.

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 action to report out S.B. No. 157, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 157, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to your Committees on Health and Labor and Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing for further reconsideration.