Bill Text: HI HB324 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Kupuna Caucus; Senior Centers; Department of Health; Appropriation

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB324 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB324-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  451

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 324

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 324 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENIOR CENTERS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to support the invaluable services provided by senior centers to seniors by appropriating funds to support the operations of certain senior centers so that they may continue to enhance the quality of life for seniors in their respective communities.

 

     The Hawaii Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association, Catholic Charities Hawaii, ILWU Local 142, AARP Hawaii, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Waikiki Community Center, the Senior Program Director of the Moiliili Community Center, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Executive Office on Aging submitted comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Inserting the correct legal names of the organizations intended to receive the funding appropriated by this bill; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for consistency and style.

 

     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. 324, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 324, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair