Bill Text: HI HB807 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medical Claim Conciliation Panel

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB807 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB807-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  464

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 807

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 807 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEDICAL CLAIM CONCILIATION PANEL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the medical tort law and help contain the spiraling costs of medical malpractice insurance by, among other things:

 

     (1)  Prohibiting the Medical Claim Conciliation Panel (Panel) from filing claims brought after the expiration of the statute of limitations;

 

     (2)  Authorizing the Panel to dismiss frivolous or non-meritorious claims; and

 

     (3)  Requiring the Panel to provide a copy of the certificate of consultation to the health care providers.

 

     The Hawaii Medical Association and Hawaii Association of Health Plans testified in support of this bill.  The Hawaii Association for Justice and a concerned individual offered comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to correct drafting style.

 

     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. 807, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 807, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair