Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2813 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to ensure healthcare coverage for disabled children by requiring health insurance policies and similar products that provide coverage for children of an insured person to also provide coverage for the disabled children of the insured person.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs supported this bill. The American Council of Life Insurers opposed the measure. Kaiser Permanente did not support the bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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 intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2813, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2813, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.