STAND. COM. REP. NO.  541-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2541

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2541 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR HOSPITAL-BASED DENTISTRY SERVICES IN THE COUNTY OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a pilot program to be operated by Hamakua Health Center to provide hospital dentistry services for Hawaii county residents who have Medicaid or QUEST insurance or are low-income and uninsured and have inadequate access to dental care.

     The State Council on Developmental Disabilities and its East and West Hawaii Developmental Disabilities Committees, Hawaii Primary Care Association, The Arc of Kona, Hamakua Health Center, Inc., Full Life, and a concerned individual supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2541 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair