Bill Text: HI SB2796 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To The Policy Advisory Board For Elder Affairs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-19 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Choy, DeCoite, Har, Souki excused (4). [SB2796 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2796-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE POLICY ADVISORY BOARD FOR ELDER AFFAIRS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION
1. The legislature finds that the policy
advisory board for elder affairs includes nine ex officio members; it is their
office that entitles them to be appointed, unlike other selected members of the
board who have eligibility requirements based on their interests and knowledge. The ex officio members are voting members,
and that has sometimes created difficulties because the ex officio members or
their designated surrogates may not be as familiar with problems and solutions
related to aging as the other members.
Often the ex officio members or their designated surrogates have
workloads within their assigned departments that prevent them from devoting the
time or energy to learning current issues related to aging or that prevent them
from attending all twelve meetings of the board each year. Additionally, ex officio members or their
designated surrogates are often younger than the age of sixty, which is
problematic because a majority of the board is required to be over sixty years
old.
The
purpose of this Act is to amend section 349-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to
change the composition of the board by decreasing the number of members,
specifying that ex officio members are nonvoting members, and revising the list
of agencies that provide representatives to serve as ex officio members.
SECTION
2. Section 349-4, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) There shall be a policy advisory board for
elder affairs, appointed by the governor under section 26-34. The board shall advise the director in[,]
but not limited to[,] the following areas:
(1) The identification of issues and alternative
approaches to solutions;
(2) The development of position statements and
papers;
(3) Advocacy and legislative actions; and
(4) Program development and operations.
The board shall consist of not less
than [twenty-one] fifteen nor more than [twenty-nine] twenty-one
members, a majority of whom are over sixty years of age and who shall be
selected on the basis of their interests and knowledge in and their ability to
make contributions to the solution of problems relating to aging, and shall
include at least one member from the county of Hawaii, one member from the
county of Maui, one member from the county of Kauai, and one member from the city
and county of Honolulu. There [shall]
may be [nine] up to ten members who shall serve as ex
officio nonvoting members and [shall be chosen from among] may
consist of the heads of the following state agencies [which] that
provide services or programs affecting elders:
health, human services, education, labor and industrial relations, commerce
and consumer affairs, University of Hawaii, transportation, the state
retirement system, [the office of consumer protection,] and, by
invitation, the Hawaii [representative] representatives of the [[]United
States Department of Health and Human Services[].] and the Social
Security Administration. Ex officio
members may delegate their board responsibilities to another member of their
agency. Of the non ex officio members,
one-third of the members shall be appointed for the term of four years,
one-third for the term of three years, and one-third for the term of two years;
and thereafter the terms of office of each member shall be four years. The
members shall serve without compensation, but shall be paid their necessary
expenses in attending meetings and carrying out the responsibilities of the
board. The chairperson shall be elected
annually from the nongovernmental members of the board. There shall be not less than twelve meetings
of the board each year."
SECTION
3. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
SECTION
4. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Report Title:
Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs; Quorum; Membership
Description:
Decreases the number of members appointed to the Policy Advisory Board of Elder Affairs. Specifies that ex officio members are nonvoting members. Revises the list of agencies that provide representatives to serve as ex officio members. (SD1)
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