Report Title:

Kauai Community Health Center; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds to Kauai community health center for dental services.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2328

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR KAUAI COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER.

 

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

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Kauai community health center is one of Hawaii's newest community health centers, serving individuals in Kauai county who live below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level. The legislature further finds that the center provides comprehensive medical services, including dental services, which help to alleviate the high rates of dental disease. Establishment of the center provided better access to much needed health and dental services by the poor and uninsured of Kauai county.

The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the dental program at the Kauai community health center has sufficient resources to continue to serve the residents of Kauai county.

SECTION 2. 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 2004-2005, for dental services at Kauai community health center.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

INTRODUCED BY:

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