Report Title:

Community Health Centers; Oral Health Services; GO Bonds

 

Description:

Appropriates funds to the DOH for oral health clinics and dentists; appropriates funds to the DHS for medicaid oral health services; authorizes GO bonds to be issued for the construction of new community health centers in underserved areas, including an oral health center; federal match required.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1420

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR community health centers.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the State is sorely lacking in sufficient community health centers, particularly those that provide oral health services, especially to the underserved areas on the neighbor islands. The legislature further finds that the State's medicaid program for oral health services is lacking in sufficient funding to pay for oral health services, not including emergency oral health services, for medicaid eligible individuals. The lack of state medicaid funding for oral health services necessitates that the State operate oral health clinics.

The purposes of this Act is to:

(1) Authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to plan and construct community health centers in underserved areas that also provide oral health clinics;

(2) Make appropriations for the establishment of more oral health clinics and hiring of more dentists; and

(3) Provide more medicaid funding for oral health services.

SECTION 2. The director of finance is authorized to issue general obligation bonds in the sum of $30,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2003-2004 for the purpose of planning and constructing one or more community health centers in underserved areas of the State; provided that each health center shall include an oral health service; provided further that the appropriations under this Act shall be equally matched dollar for dollar by federal funding for the programs and services of the community health center to be constructed under this Act.

SECTION 3. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal biennium for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2006, shall lapse as of that date.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, for the establishment of more state oral health clinics and the hiring of more state dentists and dental hygienists, with priority given to the neighbor islands and rural areas of Oahu, but excluding emergency oral health services.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health.

SECTION 5. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2003-2004, for the State's medicaid program for oral health services, but excluding emergency oral health services.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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