CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. 62
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 665
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
C.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 665, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREPAID HEALTH CARE PLAN,"
having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.
The purpose of this measure is to prohibit persons employed by a managed care plan, other than health care providers, from serving as members on the Prepaid Health Care Advisory Council.
Your Committee on Conference, upon further consideration, has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the amendment to section 393-7(d), Hawaii Revised Statutes, which specified that representatives of the medical and public health professions be actual providers of such services;
(2) Deleting language which provided that a person employed by a managed care plan, other than a health care services provider, shall not be appointed to the prepaid health care advisory council;
(3) Deleting language defining "managed care plan";
(4) Deleting language concerning the possibility of preemption by the Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the protective repeal and reenactment of prior law provisions if the proposed amendment is deemed preempted by ERISA; and
(5) Including language to preclude persons representing a health maintenance organization, a mutual benefit society that issues individual and group hospital or medical service plans, or any other health care organization from serving as a member on the Prepaid Health Care Advisory Council.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 665, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 665, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, C.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:
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ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE |
ON THE PART OF THE SENATE |
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Co-Chair |
____________________________ BRIAN KANNO, Chair |
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____________________________ KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Co-Chair |