Bill Text: HI SB1506 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health; Childhood Obesity Pilot Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1506 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1506-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 686

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1506

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1506, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to address the growing epidemic of childhood obesity by establishing a Childhood Obesity Pilot Program.

 

     More specifically, the measure:

 

     (1)  Establishes the childhood obesity pilot program within the Department of Health for administrative purposes;

 

     (2)  Requires the director of health to select twenty health care providers to participate;

 

     (3)  Requires insurers to provide coverage for provider participant services under the program; and

 

     (4)  Appropriates funds for the program's support.

 

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from Patricia McManaman, Interim Director, Department of Human Services; Hawaii Medical Association; Sandra Wood, P.T., Hawaii Chapter, American Physical Therapy Association; Donald B. Weisman, Hawaii Advocacy Director, American Heart Association; George S. Massengale, JD, Director of Government Relations, American Cancer Society; Beth Giesting, Chief Executive Officer, Hawaii Primary Care Association; Jennifer Dang, Hawaii NPAC; and 2 individuals.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from Gordon Ito, State Insurance Commissioner, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that childhood obesity is a national epidemic from which Hawaii has not been spared.  It is imperative that the State develop a plan to address this serious health risk in a comprehensive way.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the date by which the Childhood Obesity Pilot Program provider participants shall report to the Legislature to no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2015 regular session;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (3)  By making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1506, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1506, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair