STAND. COM. REP. NO.  801-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2539

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2539, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the establishment of health savings accounts, in addition to group health insurance, and employer-sponsored group health insurance under the Prepaid Health Care Act.

The Hawaii Medical Association, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., and Outrigger Enterprises, Inc. testified in support of this measure.  The Hawaii State AFL-CIO and ILWU Local 142 testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of the Attorney General, and Hawaii Medical Service Association provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2539, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair