Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2502 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to continue the Donated Dental Services program.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Dental Association, National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped, Waipahu Aloha Clubhouse, and one individual.

Your Committees find that donated dental services are important and have a positive impact on the elderly and disabled. Your Committees further find that this volunteer-based service has been successful since its inception in 2002. However, this success will end without further assistance from the State.

Your Committees amended this measure to include an appropriation amount of $19,309, as suggested by the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. Your Committees find that the benefits of the Donated Dental Services program far outweighs this small investment.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2502, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2502, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.