Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2502, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to continue to provide necessary dental health care to eligible elderly, disabled, or medically compromised individuals by appropriating funds for the continued implementation of the Donated Dental Services program in Hawaii.

The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Mental Health Association in Hawai'i, National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped, Blueprint for Change, Diamond Head Clubhouse, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2502, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2502, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.