Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

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 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require medical assistance programs, including Medicaid and QUEST, to cover the cost of chiropractic services.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services, the Hawaii State Chiropractic Association, and one individual.

Your Committees find that, for many people, chiropractic care can improve physical health, increase functional capacity, and prevent disabling conditions from worsening. It can also be an effective treatment for many musculoskeletal conditions for which other treatments have been unsuccessful.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3205, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.