Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3205, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to expand medical coverage under medical assistance programs administered by the Department of Human Services (DHS) by requiring those programs to cover chiropractic services for the three-year fiscal period of 2006-2009, provided that DHS is authorized to negotiate rates or establish payment and reimbursement rates as appropriate.

This measure also directs the Director of Human Services to submit an impact report to the Legislature by 2009.

DHS, Hawaii State Chiropractic Association, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees have amended this bill by changing the effective date from July 1, 2060, to July 1, 2022.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3205, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3205, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.