STAND. COM. REP. NO. 793
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 301
S.D. 2
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 301, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require health insurers and similar entities to post and regularly update the formularies of their medical plans on their websites using a standard formulary template.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Written comments on the measure were received from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
Your Committee finds that under this measure, patients in need of specific medications will be more readily able to identify which plan covers those drugs and how much it will cost them each month.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Correcting internal cross-references;
(2) Replacing references to "insurers" with "mutual benefit society" in the provisions relating to mutual benefit societies; and
(3) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.
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. 301, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 301, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair |
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