STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1013

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1431

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1431, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORAL HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish an Oral Health Task Force to review information and data on the status of oral health in the State and make recommendations to improve the State's oral health infrastructure; and

(2) Appropriate funds to help facilitate the work of the Oral Health Task Force.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System; State Health Planning and Development Agency; Hawaii Dental Association; AlohaCare; Hawaiʻi Oral Health Coalition; Hawaii Dental Service; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services; Department of Health; and Office of Information Practices.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the one full-time equivalent permanent position to an unspecified number of temporary positions; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1431, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1431, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair