STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3471

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 3259

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 3259, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DENTAL HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase access to dental health services for low-income adults and children who are eligible for QUEST, people with developmental disabilities, and the uninsured by appropriating funds for community-based dental health clinics.

Your Committee finds that inadequate dental care is a major health concern for these populations, who have difficulty accessing appropriate and timely dental care services.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an unspecified appropriation amount and changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3259, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3259, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair