Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3202, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Services to provide comprehensive dental care coverage to Medicaid and QUEST recipients.

Furthermore, this measure appropriates funds to provide comprehensive dental care coverage for Medicaid and QUEST recipients twenty-one years of age or older.

Your Committee finds that under a current administrative practice, the only recipients of Medicaid and QUEST who receive full dental coverage are recipients under twenty-one years of age. Recipients twenty-one years of age or older are eligible to receive care, but only for dental emergencies. This measure will ensure fairness and equity in this administrative practice by enabling recipients twenty-one or older to also receive full dental coverage.

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. 3202, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.