STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1093-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.C.R. No. 149

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.C.R. No. 149 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MEDICAL SERVICES FOR WOMEN WITH DENSE BREAST TISSUE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Auditor to:

(1)  Conduct an impact assessment report pursuant to sections 23-51 and 23-52, Hawaii Revised Statutes, of the social and financial effects of mandating health insurance coverage for further screening for women who have been found through a mammography to have dense breast tissue; and

(2) Include in the impact assessment report data as to the incidence of cancer detection upon further screening where evidence of cancer was not found through a standard mammography; and

(3) Determine as part of the impact assessment whether the notification requirement in Act 5, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, is unnecessary such that this Act should be repealed; and

(4)  Report these findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the convening of the Regular Session of 2015.

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Hawai‘i Pacific Health supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 149 and recommends that it 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