Bill Text: HI SB2844 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Organ or Tissue Transplantation; Health Care Coverage; HIV

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-04 - (H) Referred to HLT, CPC, referral sheet 37 [SB2844 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2844-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2519

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2844

       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. 2844 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ANATOMICAL TRANSPLANTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prevent insurers, mutual benefit societies, fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations that provide coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services from denying or limiting that coverage on the basis that the covered person is infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee recognizes that receiving an organ or tissue transplant is a multi-step process of which insurers comprise only one part.  Doctors who evaluate patients, hospital organ transplant guidelines, federal guidelines, and organ procurement organizations all effect the decision of whether or not a patient will be approved for an organ or tissue transplant. 

 

     Your Committee further finds that this measure is one step toward protecting patients with HIV from organ transplant discrimination.  HIV status alone should not be the basis for denial of an organ or tissue transplant.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050 to encourage further discussion of the problem and possible solutions.

 

     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. 2844, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2844, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair