STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1394

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.R. No. 94

      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 Committees on Health and Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.R. No. 94 entitled:

"HOUSE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ANALYZE THE PROBABLE EFFECTS OF THE PROPOSED MANDATED COVERAGE OF HEALTH INSURANCE FOR TOBACCO CESSATION AND ASSESS WHETHER ITS ENACTMENT IS CONSISTENT WITH STATE POLICY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to improve public health by requesting the Auditor to analyze the probable effects of the proposed mandated coverage of health insurance for tobacco cessation and assess whether the enactment of this proposed mandated coverage is consistent with State policy.

     The Department of Health, American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific Inc., American Heart Association, Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, and Hawaii COPD Coalition testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Consumer Protection & Commerce that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 94, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management, in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 94, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Consumer Protection & Commerce,

____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair