THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Clarence K. Nishihara, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, February 27, 2017

TIME:

9:30AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

 

 

SB 287

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires all health insurers, including health benefits plans under chapter 87A, HRS, to disclose on their public web sites any standards, criteria, or information used for making preauthorization decisions.

 

CPH

SB 387

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires a health carrier with a network plan to maintain a network that is sufficient in numbers with appropriate types of providers to ensure that covered persons have access to covered services.

 

CPH

SB 373

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Clarifies that acute care hospitals are covered under the clean claims statute, section 431:13-108, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

CPH

SB 952

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Provides the Insurance Commissioner express prior approval authority over long-term care insurance rates.  Makes technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency.

 

CPH

SB 954

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Updates Hawaii Revised Statutes title 24 by: requiring health care providers to continue providing services during a health insurer insolvency; moving the short-term health insurance preexisting disclosure requirement from section 431:10-104(5) to chapter 431, article 10A; amending the definition of "perceived gender identity" to correct a technical drafting error; including health insurers as part of the guaranty association; and making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and consistency.

 

CPH

SB 1077

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Clarifies that a mutual benefit society shall maintain a minimum net worth calculated based on annual net premium revenues and net health care expenditures.

 

CPH

SB 1137

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MUTUAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.

Requires a mutual benefit society to allow a special meeting to be called upon the written request of not less than one thousand of its members.

 

CPH

SB 372

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE.

Requires motor vehicle insurers to make satisfactory arrangements with the insurance commissioner to handle claims and service policies within the State and removes the requirement for a physical sales and claims service office.

 

CPH

SB 286

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO CHECK CASHING.

Specifies a customer has the right to rescind a deferred deposit by returning the principal amount used to fund the deferred deposit within a specified time frame.  Permits customers to convert a deferred deposit into an installment loan plan in certain circumstances and specifies requirements for the installment loan plan.  Protects against harmful collection practices.  Defines annual percentage rate.  Requires a check casher to provide a written agreement to a customer that clearly discloses specific information relating to the cost and fees associated with the deferred deposit, among other things.  Caps the annual percentage rate at thirty-six per cent for deferred deposit of a personal check.  Permits prepayment of deferred deposit agreements with no additional fees.

 

CPH

SB 395

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO REAL ESTATE BROKERS.

Permits a licensed real estate broker to pay a commission to a corporation or partnership; provided that the licensed real estate broker earned the commission on behalf of the corporation or partnership and is a member, officer, shareholder, or partner of the corporation or partnership.

 

CPH

SB 609

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO ATTESTATION ENGAGEMENTS.

Requires that peer reviews performed on public accounting firms are performed in accordance with the entirety of the Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements adopted by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

 

CPH

SB 667

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO MORTGAGE SERVICERS.

Exempts nonprofit organizations and their employees from the licensing and regulations of mortgage servicers.

 

CPH

 

[Measure added on 2/17/2017]

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808)586-6070.

 

 

 

 

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair