Bill Text: HI HB1268 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB1268 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB1268-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  784

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1268

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1268 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund board, when contracting for health benefits plans, to contract only with carriers that provide or administer prescription drug coverage together with medical benefits.

 

     The Department of Budget and Finance and several concerned individuals testified in opposition to this bill.  The Hawaii Medical Service Association provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, cosistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1268, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1268, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair