Bill Text: HI HB2 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Kupuna Caucus; Long Term Care; Education and Awareness; Appropriation ($)

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2013-04-26 - Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-26-13 at 5:00PM in Conference Room 229. [HB2 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB2-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  236

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to educate individuals about long term care.  Among other things, this bill:

 

     (1)  Appropriates funds to the Department of Health's Executive Office on Aging to administer a public education and awareness campaign on long term care and obtain an independent evaluation of the campaign;

 

     (2)  Establishes the goals of the campaign;

 

     (3)  Allows the Executive Office on Aging to develop a public-private partnership to fund and administer the campaign; and

 

     (4)  Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to submit a report on the evaluation of the campaign to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the Regular Session of 2016.

 

     The Maui County Office on Aging, AARP, ILWU Local 142, and Hawaii Alliance for Retired Americans testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health's Executive Office on Aging submitted testimony in support of the intent of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair		____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair