Bill Text: HI SB2491 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Telehealth Study; Medicaid QUEST

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-06 - (S) Vetoed on 07-06-10 - Returned from the Governor without approval (Gov. Msg. No. 672). [SB2491 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2491-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2139

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2491

       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 Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2491 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TELEMEDICINE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify telemedicine as a practice of medicine and to require insurers offering medical malpractice insurance coverage to also cover telemedicine.

 

     Your Committed received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Service Association.  Your Committee received testimony in support of the intent of this measure with amendments from the Hawaii Medical Association.  Testimony commenting on this measure was submitted by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.  The Hawaii Medical Board deferred taking a position on the measure, stating that it would discuss the measure at its next meeting.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that telemedicine is a recent innovation in the practice of medicine and may expand access to healthcare in rural areas that historically have a shortage of physicians.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion on this matter.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2491, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2491, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair