STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3768

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 123

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 123 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED MANDATORY HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR EARLY ACCESS BREAST CANCER SCREENING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Auditor to conduct a social and financial assessment of the mandatory health insurance coverage for early access breast cancer screening proposed by Senate Bill No. 827, S.D. 2, Regular Session of 2021.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System; Hawaii Medical Association; ‘Ahahui o nā Kauka – Association of Native Hawaii Physicians; CHI Lifestyle Medical Center, LLC; Hawaii Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians; Hawaii Radiological Society; Hawaii Society of Clinical Oncology; and seven individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committees find that section 23-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires that "[b]efore any legislative measure that mandates health insurance coverage for specific health services, specific diseases, or certain providers of health care services as part of individual or group health insurance policies, can be considered, there shall be concurrent resolutions passed requesting the auditor to prepare and submit to the legislature a report that assesses both the social and financial effects of the proposed mandated coverage". Senate Bill No. 827, S.D. 2, introduced in the Regular Session of 2021, proposed to expand existing mandated breast cancer screening health insurance coverage. This measure requests the Auditor to conduct a social and financial assessment of the mandatory health insurance coverage for early access breast cancer screening proposed by Senate Bill No. 827, S.D. 2, in accordance with section 23-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 123, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 123, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Commerce and Consumer Protection,

________________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

________________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Chair