STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1801

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.C.R. No. 112

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Legislative Management, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 112 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO CONDUCT A SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED MANDATORY HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR VARIOUS SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request that the Auditor conduct a social and financial assessment of proposed mandatory health insurance coverage for various sexual and reproductive health care services.

The Office of the Auditor offered comments. Planned Parenthood testified in support. HMSA offered comments.

Your committee has amended the measure by deleting references to HB 1179.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Legislative Management that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 112, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 112, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Consumer Protection & Commerce and Legislative Management,

____________________________ NADINE K. NAKAMURA, Chair

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair