STAND. COM. REP. NO.  886-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2576

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2576, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve dental care in underserved populations by appropriating funds for the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to provide dental services through its community-based dental health clinics to kupuna, keiki, the developmentally disabled, and the uninsured.

 

     The State Council on Developmental Disabilities and Hawaii Primary Care Association testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services and Attorney General provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Financing the appropriation with general funds instead of funds from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program block grant; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

 

     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. 2576, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2576, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair