STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2260

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2698

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2698 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that dependent children up to the age of twenty-seven remain covered by their parent's or guardian's health insurance plan.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that in today's difficult economic climate and with the increasing necessity of graduate education to be competitive for employment, many young adults are uninsured for several years after graduating from their parent's or guardian's insurance plans while they finish their schooling and search for steady employment.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will reduce the amount of uninsured or underinsured students and young adults.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

     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. 2698, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2698, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair