Bill Text: HI SB106 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Aging; Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Services Coordinator; Task Force on Mobility Management; Kupuna Care Program; Healthy Aging Partnership; Appropriations ($)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 214, 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1317). [SB106 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB106-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 814
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 106
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 106 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to enhance services to elders.
Among other provisions, this measure:
(1) Establishes and appropriates funds for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position within the Executive Office on Aging; and
(2) Appropriates funds for grants pursuant to chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to Catholic Charities of Hawaii for the Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center, the Moliili Senior Center, and the Waikiki Community Center.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging, the City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services, AARP Hawaii, Transportation Clients of Catholic Social Services, Catholic Charities of Hawaii, Hawaii Alliance for Retired Americans, Lanakila Multi-Purpose Senior Center, the Policy Board for Elders, and seventy-one individuals.
Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Moiliili Community Senior Center.
Your Committee finds that the elder population in Hawaii is growing and that the maintenance and support for elder care facilities is necessary to ensure affordable and quality long-term care services to elders. Your Committee believes that this measure will allow more elders to remain at home as long as possible, thereby decreasing the long-term care costs for the State and for the elder population.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing all appropriation amounts to unspecified sums;
(2) Changing the effective date of the Act from July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion on the matter; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 106, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 106, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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