STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1915

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 409

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 409 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to health.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that requires a health insurance provider to include in its policies, coverage for medical vigilance services for covered patients who are receiving in-patient health care services at an acute care hospital.

     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 S.B. No. 409, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 409, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Health, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair