STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2865

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3090

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STANDARDIZED FORMS FOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish standardized forms for health care providers to use for workers' compensation reports and billings.

Your Committee finds that this measure will streamline reporting and billing. Furthermore, it will promote efficiency by making it easier for insurers, third party administrators, and self-insured employers to screen incoming reports and bills.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2007, and by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3090, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair