STAND. COM. REP. NO.  478-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2315

      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 Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2315 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RECORDS OF THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to enable the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to set rates for copies of medical records, exempt from the Uniform Information Practices Act.

This measure specifies that copies of medical records requested from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation regional system facilities shall be paid for by the requestor in an amount based on the facility's actual cost of preparation that shall be no less than $1 per page and no more than $2 per page.  

The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation supported this measure.  The Office of Information Practices commented on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Authorizing the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to set a flat rate for searching for, reviewing, segregating, and copying medical records for certain requests;

(2)  Clarifying that the rate for copying medical records shall be no less than $1 per page and no more than $2 per page; and

(3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     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. 2315, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2315, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair