STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2758

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2729

S.D. 1

 

 

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 S.B. No. 2729, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTISTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a dental care student loan repayment program within the Department of Health.

Under the measure, the program will repay up to a maximum of three years of student loan obligations incurred by licensed dentists who agree to practice in underserved communities.

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide significant incentives and create practice opportunities in attracting dentists to areas of need.

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 S.B. No. 2729, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair