Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Legislative Management, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 39, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the Auditor to assess the social and financial effects of requiring health insurers to offer coverage for colorectal cancer screening by fecal occult blood testing, flexible sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy every ten years beginning at age 50.

Section 23-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires that the Auditor perform a sunrise study before any legislation may be considered that mandates health insurance coverage for specific health services, specific diseases, or for certain providers of health care services as part of individual or group health insurance policies.

The American Cancer Society and Kaiser Permanente testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Medical Service Association offered comments.

Your Committee finds that an impact assessment will provide the Legislature with findings and information for its decisionmaking.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Legislative Management that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 39, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.