STAND. COM. REP. NO.  842

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 877

      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 Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 877 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DESIGNEES FOR THE DIRECTORS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, OF HEALTH, OF HUMAN SERVICES, AND OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS FOR THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to improve the effectiveness of the Hawaii Health Connector Board of Directors (Board) by authorizing the executive department directors who are ex-officio voting members of the Board to select designees to serve on behalf of the directors at specified board meetings.

The Department of Health, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Department of Human Services testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii Primary Care Association testified in support of the intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by specifying that executive department directors who are ex-officio voting members of the Board may each select a designee from their respective departments for all Hawaii Health Connector meetings.

     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. 877, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 877, H.D. 1.

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

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair