STAND. COM. REP. NO.  149-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2015

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2015 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure access to quality health care by prohibiting health plans from requiring prior authorization for persons to receive general obstetric / gynecological (OBGYN) services or treatment for hepatitis C.

 

     The Hawaii Association of Health Plans opposed this bill.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Medical Service Association submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee wishes to clarify that the provisions of this bill are strictly to ensure a woman access to routine OBGYN care and are not meant in any way to include abortion procedures.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage 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. 2015, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2015, H.D. 1, and 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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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair