Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 11 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to encourage public schools to encourage increased calcium intake by female students.

Upon further consideration, your Committee developed and scheduled for public hearing a proposed Senate Draft No. 1, to request a Management Audit of the Department of Health's Dental Health Division.

Your Committee received testimony on the proposed Senate Draft No. 1 from the Department of Health asking that the audit be deferred until a statewide oral health plan is completed.

Your Committee finds that concerns have been raised by neighbor island residents indicating that the Department's dental health services are not accessible on the neighbor islands and portions of rural Oahu. Your Committee further finds that a management audit of the program will assist the Department in reviewing how the program's resources could be more efficiently and effectively managed so that dental services could be allocated on a more equitable basis throughout the State.

Your Committee, therefore, has amended this measure by deleting its substance and substituting therefor the contents of S.C.R. No. 160, Requesting a Management Audit of the Department of Health's Dental Health Division. Your Committee also made several technical non-substantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 11, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 11, S.D. 1.