Bill Text: HI SB2371 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Limited Benefit Health Insurance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-17 - (H) Act 115, on 5/17/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 329). [SB2371 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2371-Amended.html

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 93-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2010

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2371

       S.D. 2

       H.D. 1

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam and Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the Senate to the amendments proposed by the House of Representatives in S.B. No. 2371, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to exempt limited benefit health insurance policies enacted in chapter 431, article 10A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, from any Insurance Code provision that generally applies to accident, health or sickness insurance policies, with certain exceptions, and unless the provision expressly states that the provision is applicable to the limited benefit health insurance policy.

 

     Your Committee finds that limited benefit health insurance policies are policies that cover a specific disease or condition or that provide reimbursement for specific expenses that are generally not covered by a primary health insurance policy.  Your Committee finds that because the nature of a limited benefit health insurance policy is fundamentally different from that of a primary health insurance policy, laws that are generally applicable to primary health insurance policies may be inappropriate for limited benefit policies. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to upon approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2371, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2371, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Co-Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair
____________________________ ROBERT N. HERKES, Co-Chair		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Co-Chair