STAND. COM. REP. NO.  714

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1120

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1120 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DENTAL HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the State's ability to address the current dental health care crisis by appropriating an unspecified sum to the Hawaii Primary Care Association to establish or expand community-based dental health clinics operated by federally-qualified health centers to serve QUEST-eligible adults and children, individuals with developmental disabilities, and the uninsured.

 

     The State Council on Development Disabilities, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Kokua Council, Kokua Kalihi Valley, Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii, Papa Ola Lokahi, West Hawaii Community Health Center, Inc., Bay Clinic, Inc., Community Health Center, Community Clinic of Maui, Hamakua Health Center, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Molokai Ohana Health Care, Inc., and Lutheran Medical Center-Hawaii Region testified in support of this bill.  A concerned individual provided comments.

 


     It is your Committee's understanding that the Hawaii Primary Care Association has requested that the funding be appropriated directly to the Department of Health.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Appropriating the funds to the Department of Health for

          the establishment or expansion of community-based dental

          health clinics, instead of awarding a grant-in-aid to

          the Hawaii Primary Care Association; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style,

          clarity, and consistency.

 

     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. 1120, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1120, 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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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair