REPORT TITLE:
Preventive Dental Services


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to DHS to provide preventive dental services
for adults. (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE PREVENTIVE DENTAL SERVICES TO
   ADULTS.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that as of February 1,
 
 2 1996, preventive dentistry services for adults covered by the
 
 3 Medicaid and MedQuest programs were discontinued because of
 
 4 cutbacks in the state budget.  At the present time, these clients
 
 5 can only receive emergency dental services.  Medicaid, a
 
 6 federally funded program, will provide fifty per cent of funds
 
 7 necessary to provide preventive dentistry services to these adult
 
 8 clients of the Medicaid and MedQuest programs.  The State must
 
 9 provide the remaining fifty per cent for those who are qualified.
 
10      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to provide
 
11 preventive dental services for adults covered by Medicaid and
 
12 MedQuest on a fee for service basis through the department of
 
13 human services' MedQuest program.
 
14      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
15 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
16 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, and
 
17 the same sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be
 
18 necessary, is appropriated for fiscal year 2000-2001, to provide
 
19 preventive dental services for adults covered by Medicaid and
 

 
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 1 MedQuest on a fee for service basis through the MedQuest program;
 
 2 provided that no other dental specialties or services other than
 
 3 preventive dentistry shall be covered.
 
 4      SECTION 3.  The department of human services shall consult
 
 5 with the department of health as to which dental services
 
 6 constitute preventive dentistry.
 
 7      SECTION 4.  The sums appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 8 department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
 
 9      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.