Bill Text: HI HB744 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Notification; Silver Alert Program
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-11 - (S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. [HB744 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB744-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 323
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2009
RE: H.B. No. 744
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 Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 744, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to establish a statewide silver alert program to be activated on behalf of a missing senior citizen.
Under present law, there is no program to alert the public of missing senior citizens. This bill establishes the silver alert program to issue alerts of missing senior citizens under certain conditions. The measure requires the silver alert program to be integrated with the Maile Amber Alert program and partnership to the greatest possible extent.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs.
Your Committee finds that the establishment of the silver alert program will provide a greater degree of safety for persons who are elderly and suffer from dementia or other debilitating mental condition.
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 H.B. No. 744, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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