STAND. COM. REP. NO. 260-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2131

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2131 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DONATED DENTAL SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $30,765 for fiscal year 2004-2005 for the Department of Health's Donated Dental Services Program.

The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped, Kokua Council, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Oahu, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii is one of 33 states that have a donated dental service program. The program uses volunteer dentists, their offices, and donated dental care. The program provides free and much needed dental services to the elderly, disabled, and medically compromised. It is cost-effective and relatively inexpensive for the benefits it provides.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to $1; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

Your Committee defers to the Committee on Finance to determine if any funding can be provided. Without the appropriation the program will end on March 30, 2004.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2131, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2131, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair