Bill Text: HI SB366 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-28 - Act 127, 06/25/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1229). [SB366 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB366-Amended.html
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Alzheimer's disease and dementia are chronic health conditions that gravely impact the residents of Hawaii. There are twenty-eight thousand people in Hawaii who are at least sixty-five years old and suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The expenditure of $207,000,000 in 2018 for Medicaid is expected to increase by 35.5 per cent by 2025, with a per capita expenditure of $17,617 for Medicare spending for people with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia.
The
position of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator was
established within the executive office on aging by Act 214, Session Laws of
Hawaii 2013. The coordinator is tasked
with coordinating the provision of public and private Alzheimer's disease and
related dementia services.
The purpose of this Act is to
appropriate funds for the existing position of Alzheimer's disease and related
dementia services coordinator and to establish a new program specialist IV
position
within the executive office on aging.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the position of Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator within the executive office on aging.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the executive office on aging for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019-2020 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2020-2021 for the position of program specialist IV within the executive office on aging.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the executive office on aging for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.
Report Title:
DOH; Executive Office on Aging; Alzheimer's; Dementia; Coordinator Position; Appropriation
Description:
Appropriates funds to the Executive Office on Aging to fund the existing position of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator and to establish the new position of Program Specialist IV. (SB366 HD1)
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
