Bill Text: HI SB27 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Long-Term Care Insurance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-25 - (S) Act 012, 4/25/2011 (Gov. Msg. No. 1112). [SB27 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-SB27-Amended.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

27

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 431:10A-102.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  When used in sections 431:10A-104, 431:10A-105, 431:10A-106, 431:10A-107, 431:10A-108, 431:10A-109, 431:10A-110, 431:10A-111, 431:10A-112, 431:10A-113, 431:10A-114, 431:10A-117, 431:10A-118, [431:10A-131,] 431:10A-601, 431:10A-602, 431:10A‑603, and 431:10A-604, except as otherwise provided, the terms "accident insurance", "accident and health or sickness insurance", "health insurance", or "sickness insurance" shall include an accident-only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, [long-term care,] disability, dental, vision, medicare supplement, or other limited benefit health insurance contract regardless of the manner in which benefits are paid."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.


     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2011.

 


 


 

Report Title:

Long-Term Care Insurance

 

Description:

Removes long-term care insurance from the definition of "accident and health or sickness insurance" and related terms within the insurance code; removes reference to insurance fraud statute.  (SD1)

 

 

 

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