STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2196

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2825

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2825 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII IMMUNIZATION REGISTRY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Health to:

     (1)  Allow limited access by authorized health organizations to registry information in the Hawaii Immunization Registry to produce immunization assessment reports; and

     (2)  Store minimal demographic information for individuals who have elected to refuse inclusion in the Hawaii Immunization Registry.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, HMSA, and the Hawaii Association of Health Plans.

     Your Committee finds that allowing health insurers to access the Hawaii Immunization Registry in order to generate immunization assessment reports will better enable insurers to formulate strategies to improve immunization rates among their insureds.

     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. 2825 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

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

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair