Bill Text: HI SB2343 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Mammograms; Accident and Health or Sickness Insurance
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-03 - (H) Referred to HLT, CPC, referral sheet 33 [SB2343 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2343-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2398
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2343
S.D. 1
Honorable Colleen Hanabusa
President of the Senate
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2343, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR MAMMOGRAMS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to prohibit an insurer from requiring a doctor's referral for annual mammograms for covered individuals over forty years old.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawai‘i, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, the Hawai‘i Women's Coalition, and three individuals. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.
Your Committee finds that women over forty years of age are at an increased risk for breast cancer. Your Committee further finds that no-referral annual mammograms for covered women over forty will increase the likelihood of early detection of breast cancer which will increase the chances of survival for women diagnosed with this disease.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2343, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,
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____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair |
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