STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3013

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1111

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1111, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to set rates for copies of records that are protected from disclosure requirements of the Uniform Information Practices Act and establish minimum and maximum rates for copies of medical records based on the actual cost of preparation.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Information Practices.

     Your Committees find that the copying of medical records is a labor-intensive process that involves specialized training to carefully analyze information to ensure that any product fully complies with health care privacy and confidentiality regulations.  Additionally, because medical records often contain documents of varying sizes and shapes, personnel must number and handle each page individually, which requires a significant amount of time and resources.  This measure assists the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation in preventing future litigation over copying costs and helps to reduce resultant financial losses.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that a requester of copies of records shall pay an amount no less than $1 per page and no more than $2 per page; and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1111, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1111, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health and Judiciary and Labor,

________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair