STAND. COM. REP. NO.  128-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1718

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1718 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require long-term care insurance policies or certificates to include coverage for adult residential care homes, expanded adult residential care homes, and community care foster family homes.

The American Council of Life Insurers opposed this bill.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company commented.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion as this measure proceeds to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce for consideration.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1718, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1718, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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MELE CARROLL, Chair