Bill Text: HI HB2817 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Insurance; Conformity to Federal Law

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-08 - (H) Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on ERB with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and C. Lee excused (1). [HB2817 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2817-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  195-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2817

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2817 entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend to March 23, 2014, the requirement that health plans offer insurance coverage to sole proprietors.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Association of Health Plans, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and two concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2817 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Economic Revitalization & Business.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair