STAND. COM. REP. NO.182-02
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2002
RE: H.B. No. 2025
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2002
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2025 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR NEIGHBOR ISLAND DENTAL CARE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to provide dental care services for the counties of Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii.
Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Kauai Dental Health Task Force, Hawaii Dental Hygienists' Association, Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii, Kokua Council, the Mental Health Association in Hawaii, AlohaCare, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Mobile Care Health Project, and several concerned citizens. The State Health Planning and Development Agency supported the intent of this bill. The Department of Health opposed this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1 to facilitate further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
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. 2025, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2025, 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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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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