STAND. COM. REP. NO.  371

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 842

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 842 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide for oversight of dental service corporations by establishing:

     (1)  Licensing and regulatory requirements for dental service corporations;

     (2)  Financial and solvency requirements for dental service corporations; and

     (3)  The regulation of dental service corporations under the Insurance Commissioner.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Dental Service testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Dental Association and several individuals testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, for the purpose of facilitating further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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 H.B. No. 842, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 842, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair