Bill Text: HI HB414 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Dental Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB414 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB414-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  369

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 414

      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 Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 414 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the availability of dental services by prohibiting mutual benefits societies, health maintenance organizations, and dental service organizations (dental benefits carriers) from requiring a participating dentist to provide dental services to an enrolled patient at a fee set by or subject to the approval of the dental benefits carrier for services that are not covered under the dental service plan.

 

     Hawaii Dental Association and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  Hawaii Association of Health Plans, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and Hawaii Dental Service testified in opposition to this bill.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050.

 

     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. 414, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 414, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

 

 

____________________________

RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

 

 

 

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