SENATE FLOOR AMENDMENT

FLOOR AMENDMENT NO. Date

TO:     Senate Bill No. 1803, SD1, HD1, CD1

            SECTION 1.  Senate Bill No. 1803, SD1, HD1, CD1, is amended by amending section 1 to read as follows:

            "SECTION 1.  Section 431:2-201.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

     "(c)  All group health issuers shall offer all small group health plans to all small employers whose employees live, work, or reside in the group health issuer's service areas; provided that the commissioner may exempt a group health issuer if the commissioner determines that the group health issuer does not have the capacity to deliver services adequately to enrollees of additional groups given its obligation to existing employer groups[.]; and provided further that the commissioner shall exempt from this subsection group health plans offered to small employers that employ only one employee, if the group health issuer offers the small employer groups at least one small group health plan that meets the requirements of chapter 393, and upon the determination by the commissioner that the group health issuer has the capacity to adequately deliver services to enrollees of the additional groups, subject to its obligations to existing employer groups.""

Offered by:	(      )  Carried
	(      )  Failed to Carry
	(      )  Withdrawn