REPORT TITLE:
Preventive Dental Services


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates funds to DHS to provide preventive dental services
for adults.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                             
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           157
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                     
STATE OF HAWAII                                                 
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PROVIDE PREVENTIVE DENTAL SERVICES TO
   ADULTS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that as of February 1,
 
 2 1996, preventive dentistry services for adults covered by the
 
 3 Medicaid and MedQuest programs were discontinued because of
 
 4 cutbacks in the state budget.  At the present time, these clients
 
 5 can only receive emergency dental services.  Medicaid, a
 
 6 federally funded program, will provide fifty per cent of funds
 
 7 necessary to provide preventive dentistry services to these adult
 
 8 clients of the Medicaid and MedQuest programs.  The State must
 
 9 provide the remaining fifty per cent for those who are qualified.
 
10      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to provide
 
11 preventive dental services for adults covered by Medicaid and
 
12 MedQuest on a fee for service or capitated basis through the
 
13 department of human services' MedQuest program.
 
14      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
15 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
16 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, to
 
17 provide preventive dental services for adults covered by Medicaid
 
18 and MedQuest on a fee for service or capitated basis through the
 
19 MedQuest program.
 

 
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 1      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 2 department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
 
 3      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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 5                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________