RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide employers with employee group health claims experience under the employer health plan for the current policy period within 90 days of a request. Authorizes reasonable fees. Provides exceptions.

RELATING TO INSURANCE RATE REGULATION.

Exempts lowered rate filings from prior approval of the Insurance Commissioner.

RELATING TO ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES.

Establishes the three-year administrative rules review pilot program requiring the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs to examine its existing rules and begin the process of repealing obsolete, cumbersome, unnecessary, or overly restrictive rules.

RELATING TO THE REGULATORY LICENSING REFORM ACT.

Amends Regulatory Licensing Reform Act to prohibit redundant or unnecessary professional or vocational regulation. Requires DCCA to sunset a professional or vocational program if the Auditor finds it redundant or unnecessary and where there is no Act expressly prohibiting the sunset.

RELATING TO SECURITIES.

Clarifies the exemption from the securities law requirements of federal covered securities filings, registration of securities, and filing of advertising material with the Commissioner of Securities, for offers or sales of condominium rental management contracts made by licensed real estate brokers or salespersons.

RELATING TO HAZARD ZONE IDENTIFICATIONS.

Prohibits consideration of "hazard zone" identifications of the United States Department of the Interior in setting rates for residential property insurance or deciding whether to approve a residential loan application.

RELATING TO MOTORCYCLE AND MOTOR SCOOTER INSURANCE.

Requires insurers to cancel a person's motorcycle and motor scooter insurance coverage upon: (1) Failure to submit proof of a license, or of a permit and enrollment in an approved motorcycle education course; or (2) Notification that the person failed to complete and pass the motorcycle education course.

RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.

Expands the types of disputed issues a hearing officer may hear pursuant to section 514A-121.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes; amends Act 164 (2004) to allow a party to a condominium dispute to request an administrative hearing with the office of administrative hearings following mediation.

RELATING TO PLANNED COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.

Adds new section relating to members' rights; 2 new definitions for "director" and "proxy". Amends rules of governance by association board of director. Amends rights and responsibilities of the association and its members.

RELATING TO UNAUTHORIZED MOTION PICTURE RECORDING.

Prohibits the use of audiovisual recording devices in a movie theater without prior consent of the movie theater operator.

RELATING TO CEMETERY AND FUNERAL TRUSTS.

Prohibits mortuary, cemetery, and pre-need funeral authorities from committing certain acts in connection with the cancellation of pre-need funeral services or pre-need interment services.

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Rep. Kenneth Hiraki