02/23/2010 02:30 PM Senate FINANCE

SENATE BILL NO. 199                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act providing for a two-year funding cycle for                                                                         
     medical assistance coverage for dentures."                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
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Co-Chair  Stedman   provided  a  history  of   the  bill  in                                                                    
committee. He  noted that at  the first hearing  on February                                                                    
11, the  bill was  held for  the department  to work  on the                                                                    
fiscal notes.  The Department of Health  and Social services                                                                    
had two  fiscal notes, one  for the audit of  the preventive                                                                    
dental  program showing  the impact  of combining  two years                                                                    
worth of services in one  fiscal note; the Finance Committee                                                                    
had  adopted the  note. The  second fiscal  note represented                                                                    
the department's  request for  one additional  staff person;                                                                    
the Finance Committee ascertained  that the position was not                                                                    
necessary and adopted a zero note to replace it.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Hoffman  MOVED to  report SB  199 out  of Committee                                                                    
with individual recommendations  and the accompanying fiscal                                                                    
notes. There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
SB  199 was  REPORTED  out  of Committee  with  a "do  pass"                                                                    
recommendation  and  with a  new  zero  note by  the  Senate                                                                    
Finance Committee  and a  previously published  fiscal note:                                                                    
FN2 (HSS).                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
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