STAND. COM. REP. NO. 824-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2156
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2156, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR BASIC DENTAL
     SERVICES FOR ADULTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure access to dental care
for adults by appropriating $2,244,000 to the Department of
Health (DOH) for start-up costs and dental services for indigent
adults, provided that these dental services are provided through
community-based health centers and other nonprofit, community-
based dental safety-net providers.

     The Hawaii State Primary Care Association, the Hawaii Dental
Hygienists' Association, Kokua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family
Services, the Kalihi-Palama Health Center, the Health Care for
the Homeless Project, the Office for Social Ministry, and the
Mobile Care Health Project testified in support of this measure.
DOH and the State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities
testified in support of the intent of this measure.  The Arc in
Hawaii opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Reducing the appropriation to $1 for purposes of
          further discussion; and


 
 
 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity 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.
2156, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2156, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair