Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the efficiency of the worker's compensation system by requiring the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) to establish standardized forms for health care providers to use when reporting on and billing for injuries compensable under the State Workers' Compensation Law.

The Department of Human Resources Development, ILWU Local 142, and Hawaii State Chiropractic Association supported this bill. The Hawaii Insurers Council and Hawaii Chapter, American Physical Therapy Association supported this measure with amendments. DLIR offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.