Bill Text: HI SB2264 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: QUEST; Adult Dental Care

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-24 - (S) The committee on WAM deferred the measure. [SB2264 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2264-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2024

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2264

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2264 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUEST HEALTH CARE PAYMENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to restore basic dental benefits that expired in 2006 for indigent adults who are covered by the medicaid program.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Malama I Ke Ola, Hawai‘i Primary Care Association, Kokua Kalihi Valley, Lutheran Medical Center, The Arc of Kona, Waimanalo Health Center, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Bay Clinic Family Health Centers, Ho‘ola Lahui Hawai‘i, and twelve individuals. Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that appropriate dental care is an important part of overall health, and that currently, indigent adults are only given dental care on an emergency basis.  Your Committee also finds that proper maintenance and preventative dental care would alleviate some of the need for emergency dental care.  Your Committee would like to note that the term "quest" on page 1, line 12 of the measure should be spelled in all capital letters and requests that the correction be made as the measure continues through the legislative process.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2264 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair