STAND. COM. REP. NO. 101

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 622
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 622
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to change mandated insurance
coverage by increasing the frequency of mammogram screening
allowable to:

     1) One baseline mammogram for women thirty-five to thirty-
nine years of age;

     2) An annual mammogram for women forty years of age and
older; and

     3) A woman of any age with a history of breast cancer or
whose mother or sister has had a history of breast cancer, upon
the recommendation of the woman's physician. 

     The Department of Health, the Insurance Division of the
Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, the Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women, and the American Cancer
Society submitted testimony in strong support of this measure.
Kaiser Permanente also submitted testimony posing no objections
to the changes. 
 
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your

 
 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
622 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to
the Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce.

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



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                                   ALEXANDER C. SANTIAGO, Chair