STAND. COM. REP. NO.  692

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1134

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1134, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PREPAID HEALTH CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure that Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care continues even if national health care coverage legislation passes, by deleting provisions for the termination of Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act on the effective date of federal legislation for health care.  Without knowing what the federal coverage might entail and knowing that Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care works well, it is important that Hawaii not lose it's successful health care coverage. 

     The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the Hawaii Association of Health Plans, Hawaii Medical Association, and Hawaii Medical Service Association supported the bill.  The Attorney General opposed the measure.  The Healthcare Association of Hawaii provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1134, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair