STAND. COM. REP. NO. 271-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: H.B. No. 2105
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2105 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR DONATED DENTAL SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to continue the implementation of the donated dental services program in Hawaii.
Your Committee finds that the donated dental services program links eligible individuals who are elderly or disabled with volunteer dentists, who provide the needed dental care services. The Hawaii program was implemented in 2002 and has been administered by the Department of Health, through the State Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Since the program's inception, ninety-four individuals have received dental care services from volunteer dentists and volunteer dental laboratories. Your Committee further finds that the program faces imminent termination unless funding is continued by the Legislature.
Testimony in support of this measure was received from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Chairman of Donated Dental Services Hawaii, the Hawaii Dental Association, the National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped, the Oahu's Voice on Mental Illness, and the Hawaii Disability Rights Center.
Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation from an unspecified amount to $1, in order to facilitate continued discussion of the matter.
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. 2105, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2105, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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