Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 106, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect employee privacy rights by defining the types of health care information that must be provided to employees and the circumstances under which insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) provide this information to employers.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Medical Service Association testified in support of this measure. The Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Hawaii Association of Health Plans supported this measure with amendments. Summerlin Life & Health Insurance Company opposed this measure. Several concerned individuals provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 106, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 106, H.D. 3.