Hawaii House Bill 2740 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Enrolled on April 12 2016 - 75% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-04-28 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-16 10:00AM in conference room 016.
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Establishes preauthorization standards for all health insurers in the State, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, HRS. Requires preauthorization requests for medical treatment or service to be consistent with known, published, and current evidence-based appropriate-use criteria or guidelines for the appropriate specialty or subspecialty for which the preauthorization is requested. Specifies requirements for insurers that require preauthorization. Specifies that preauthorization is not required for delivery of emergency medical services. Requires decisions on preauthorization requests to be made in accordance with nationally-accepted evidence-based appropriate-use criteria or guidelines and made available to health care providers within a health insurer's network. Requires that licensed health care providers be defended and indemnified by an insurer for civil liability for injury to a patient that was caused by the insurer's undue delay in preauthorization. Establishes that an insurer that fails to meet the standards is civilly liable for any injury that occurs to a patient due to undue delay in receipt of medical treatment or services. Specifies that an insurer is not prohibited from implementing preauthorization or otherwise meeting established requirements for preauthorization, as required under existing state or federal programs. Requires the insurance commissioner to submit a report to the legislature. Sunsets 7/1/2019. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)

Preauthorization; Health Insurance; Health Insurers; Standards; Establishment; Medical Treatment or Service; Guidelines

Rep. Romy Cachola [D]	Rep. Cindy Evans [D]	Rep. Sylvia Luke [D]	Rep. John Mizuno [D]
Rep. Scott Saiki [D]	Rep. Joseph Souki [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-04-28	Senate	Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-29-16 10:00AM in conference room 016.
2016-04-27	Senate	Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-16 10:00AM in conference room 016.
2016-04-26	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-27-16 10:00AM in conference room 016.
2016-04-25	House	Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Wednesday 04-27-16 10:00AM in conference room 329.
2016-04-25	Senate	Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-16 3:15pm in conference room 016.
2016-04-22	House	Received notice of change in Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 686).
2016-04-22	Senate	Senate Conferees Added: Senator Tokuda added as Co-Chair.
2016-04-21	Senate	Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-25-16 10:00AM in conference room 016.
2016-04-20	Senate	Received notice of change in conferees (Hse. Com. No. 620).
2016-04-20	House	Bill scheduled for Conference Committee Meeting on Thursday, 04-21-16 10:15AM in conference room 016.
2016-04-19	House	Received notice of Senate conferees (Sen. Com. No. 656).
2016-04-19	House	House conferee(s) replaced: Representative(s) Tupola replaced Representative(s) Fukumoto Chang as conferee(s).
2016-04-19	Senate	Senate Conferees Appointed: Baker Chair; Keith-Agaran Co-Chair; Kidani.
2016-04-19	Senate	Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 611).
2016-04-18	House	House Conferees Appointed: Belatti, Rhoads, Woodson, Luke Co-Chairs; Fukumoto Chang.
2016-04-18	House	Re-referred to HLT, JUD, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 51
2016-04-15	Senate	Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 609).
2016-04-14	House	House disagrees with Senate amendment (s).
2016-04-12	House	Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 644) in amended form (SD 2).
2016-04-12	Senate	Report adopted; Passed Third Reading, as amended (SD 2). Ayes, 24; Aye(s) with reservations: Senator(s) L. Thielen . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 1 (Senator(s) Slom). Transmitted to House.
2016-04-08	Senate	48 Hrs. Notice 04-12-16.
2016-04-08	Senate	Reported from JDL (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3489) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 2).
2016-04-01	Senate	The committee(s) on JDL recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in JDL were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Keith-Agaran, Shimabukuro, Gabbard, K.Kahele; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 3 Excused: Senator(s) Kim, L. Thielen, Slom.
2016-03-29	Senate	The committee(s) on JDL will hold a public decision making on 04-01-16 9:30AM in conference room 016.
2016-03-24	Senate	Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDL.
2016-03-24	Senate	Reported from CPH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3086) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to JDL.
2016-03-22	Senate	The committee(s) on CPH recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPH were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Baker, Kidani, Espero, Ihara, Ruderman; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Nishihara, Slom.
2016-03-18	Senate	The committee(s) on CPH deferred the measure until 03-22-16 9:45AM in conference room 229.
2016-03-17	Senate	The committee(s) on CPH deferred the measure until 03-18-16 10:00AM in conference room 229.
2016-03-11	Senate	The committee(s) on CPH has scheduled a public hearing on 03-17-16 9:45AM in conference room 229.
2016-03-10	Senate	Referred to CPH, JDL.
2016-03-10	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2016-03-10	Senate	Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 356).
2016-03-08	House	Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and none excused (0). Transmitted to Senate.
2016-03-04	House	Reported from JUD (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 993-16), recommending passage on Third Reading.
2016-03-04	House	The committees on JUD recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Rhoads, San Buenaventura, Belatti, Brower, Creagan, Hashem, C. Lee, Morikawa, Nakashima, Takayama, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Kawakami, Woodson, McDermott.
2016-03-01	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by JUD on Friday, 03-04-16 2:00PM in House conference room 325.
2016-02-23	House	Re-referred to HLT, JUD, referral sheet 21
2016-02-11	House	Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Har, Oshiro excused (2).
2016-02-11	House	Reported from HLT (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 207-16) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to CPC.
2016-02-08	House	The committees on HLT recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Belatti, Hashem, Jordan, Kobayashi, Morikawa; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Oshiro; Noes: none; and 3 Excused: Representative(s) Creagan, Fukumoto Chang, Tupola.
2016-02-05	House	Bill scheduled to be heard by HLT on Monday, 02-08-16 1:45PM in House conference room 329.
2016-02-01	House	Referred to HLT, CPC, JUD, referral sheet 5
2016-01-27	House	Introduced and Passed First Reading

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=2740&year=2016
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/HB2740_.HTM
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/HB2740_HD1_.HTM
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/HB2740_SD1_.HTM
Text	http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2016/bills/HB2740_SD2_.HTM