Bill Text: HI HB821 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 821 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Mandatory Health Coverage; Autism Spectrum Disorders

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB821 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB821-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 187

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2011

RE: H.B. No. 821

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 821 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help increase affordability for families caring for members with autism spectrum disorders by requiring providers of accident and health or sickness insurance and mutual benefit societies to provide health care coverage and benefits for autism spectrum disorders beginning no later than December 31, 2011.

The Hawaii Disability Rights Center and many concerned individuals supported this bill. The Hawaii Association of Health Plans and Hawaii Medical Service Association opposed this measure. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by limiting the mandatory insurance coverage to that which is in excess of services provided by the Department of Health and Department of Education.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 821, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 821, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair