THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, CONSUMER PROTECTION, AND HEALTH

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator Jill N. Tokuda, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, February 26, 2018

TIME:

9:45 AM

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 208, SD1

      (SSCR469)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO UNCLAIMED LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS.

Adopts the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' Model Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act, which requires life insurers to conduct database searches using the federal Social Security Administration's death master file or similar database to determine whether an insured has died.  Requires life insurers to use good faith efforts to locate any beneficiaries to a policy, contract, or retained asset account.  Authorizes the insurance commissioner to use discretion to limit, exempt, or phase-in compliance with requirements under certain circumstances.  Effective January 1, 2018.  (SD1)

 

CPH

SB 3064

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO UTILITY POLES.

Prohibits public utilities from installing a new utility pole within ten feet of an existing utility pole; unless the original utility pole will be removed within ninety days of installing the new utility pole.

 

CPH

SB 738

      Proposed SD1

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS.

Expands the pool of orthodontists who are eligible to perform medically necessary orthodontic services for the treatment of certain orofacial anomalies for which health insurance coverage is mandatory. (Proposed SD1)

 

Copies of the proposed SD 1 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website:  www.capitol.hawaii.gov.

CPH

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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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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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair