SB 1315 RELATING TO HEALTH

SB 1315 requires all health benefits plans to include coverage for Native Hawaiian culture-based activities, including but not limited to canoe paddling, hula, and lua, that have empirically shown to be effective in the management of weight, cardiovascular health, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease.

• Date: February 14, 2017 at 1:30 p.m.
• Committee: Senate Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health
• Testifier: Jerris Hedges, MD, Dean and Keaweʻaimoku Kaholokula, PhD, Professor and Chair of Native Hawaiian Health John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Testimony (PDF)