Hawaii House Bill 2325 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-10 - The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
Pending: House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Makes various updates to title 24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, including: requiring property insurers to establish catastrophe reserve funds; requiring an insurer seeking to discontinue writing property coverage to file an affidavit; requiring the Insurance Commissioner's authorization for insurers providing residential property coverage; requiring insurers to file their premium tax statements electronically and to pay electronically; applying consumer protections to short-term health policies with preexisting conditions provisions; including physician assistant-delivered services under coverage for child health supervision for accident and health or sickness policies and for mutual benefit societies; requiring an entity to notify a claim filer under certain conditions; prohibiting a risk retention group from being a sponsor of and allowing it to be a participant in a sponsored captive insurance company; providing mental illness benefits coverage to licensed dietitians; requiring an entity's duty to respond to the Insurance Commissioner during an investigation or examination; providing visual or optometric services coverage for licensed physicians and optometrists and surgical or emergency services coverage for dentists under health plans of mutual benefit societies; providing coverage for pharmacist-delivered contraceptive services; and making other housekeeping and conforming amendments.

Hawaii Mandatory Catastrophe Reserve Act; Catastrophe Insurance; Property Insurance; Premium Tax; Electronic Filing; Electronic Payments; Physician Assistant-delivered Services; Child Health Supervision; Accident and Health or Sickness; Claim Filer; Risk Retention; Captives; Mental Illness; Licensed Dietitians; Duty to Respond; Visual or Optometric Services Coverage; Licensed Physicians and Optome

Rep. Joseph Souki [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-10	House	The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred.
2016-02-08	House	Bill scheduled for decision making on Wednesday, 02-10-16 2:00PM in conference room 325.
2016-02-08	House	The committee(s) on CPC recommend(s) that the measure be deferred until 02-10-16 at 2:00 pm.
2016-02-03	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by CPC on Monday, 02-08-16 2:05PM in House conference room 325.
2016-01-29	House	Referred to CPC, FIN, referral sheet 4
2016-01-27	House	Introduced and Pass First Reading.
2016-01-25	House	Pending introduction.

SB2854 (Same As) 2016-06-30 - Act 141, on 06/29/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1243).

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2325&year=2016
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/HB2325_.HTM