Report Title:

Health Insurance; Part-time Workers; Uninsured

 

Description:

Requires DOH, in collaboration with DCCA's Insurance Division, to develop and implement a health insurance plan for part-time workers and the uninsured.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2014

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to health insurance.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  (a)  The department of health, in collaboration with the insurance division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs, shall develop and implement a state health insurance plan to provide health insurance coverage to part-time workers who are ineligible for employer-provided health insurance and to certain other uninsured individuals.

     (b)  The state health insurance plan developed under this Act shall be designed to provide health insurance coverage for the following individuals:

     (1)  Part-time employees who are ineligible for employer-provided health insurance; and

     (2)  Uninsured individuals who do not qualify for any government-funded health care insurance assistance program, such as the state health insurance program established under chapter 431N, Hawaii Revised Statutes.


     (c)  The state health insurance plan shall include at a

minimum:

     (1)  Mandatory minimum health care benefits;

     (2)  Preventive services, outreach, and education;

     (3)  Eligibility criteria for participation in the plan;

     (4)  A payment schedule based on the individual's ability to pay; and

     (5)  Procedures to remove from the plan individuals who subsequently are able to obtain other health insurance coverage.

     (d)  The department of health shall submit a draft proposal for the state health insurance plan, along with any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2009.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $         or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for the preparation of the state health insurance plan pursuant to this Act.


     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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