STAND. COM. REP. NO. 700

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1073

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1073, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTAL SERVICE CORPORATIONS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish the licensing and regulation of dental insurers under the Insurance Commissioner.

 

More specifically, this measure prohibits any person from establishing or operating as a dental insurer without:

 

(1)  Meeting the requirements of chapter 423, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding dental service corporations; and

 

(2)  Obtaining a certificate of authority to operate as a dental insurer issued by the Insurance Commissioner.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committee finds that in order for a dental insurer to sell a standalone dental plan through the Hawaii Health Connector, the dental insurer must be licensed.  This measure requires dental insurers to be licensed, thus allowing them to sell dental plans through the Hawaii Health Connector.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Adding a definition of "dental service corporation"; and

 

(2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1073, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1073, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair