Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1022 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require medical assistance programs administered by the Department of Human Services to cover chiropractic.

Your Committee finds that the State's Medicaid and QUEST programs currently do not cover chiropractic despite the fact that chiropractic is the largest non-allopathic healthcare provider in the United States and is covered under the Medicaid programs of the majority of other states.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical changes to clarify cross references and terminology in the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1022, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1022, S.D. 1.