Bill Text: HI SB639 | 2019 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Kupuna Care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [SB639 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2019-SB639-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO KUPUNA CARE.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Hawaii's aging population motivated the legislature to pass the landmark kupuna caregivers program. The program supports qualified caregivers by providing up to $70 per day to cover the cost of adult care, chore services, home-delivered meals, homemaker services, personal care, respite, or transportation. To be eligible, caregivers must provide direct care to a care recipient who is at least sixty years old.
On January 31, 1997, Hawaii sued major tobacco companies, seeking damages and costs related to tobacco injuries and illnesses suffered by medicaid recipients. On November 23, 1998, Hawaii, along with forty five other states that had filed similar actions against the tobacco companies, entered into a global settlement. The tobacco companies agreed to pay various sums to the settling states over twenty-five years.
Given data that suggest forty-five per cent of Americans in 1965 smoked, and advertising and marketing efforts by tobacco companies were prevalent, many kupuna today were likely to have been smokers. Today, these kupuna may be suffering from smoking-related diseases, including cancer, emphysema, and other diseases, leading to a need for caregivers like those in the kupuna care program.
The purpose of this Act is to use funds from the tobacco settlement special fund to increase funding for the kupuna caregivers program.
SECTION 2. Section 328L-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The fund shall be used for the purpose of receiving, allocating, and appropriating the tobacco settlement moneys as follows:
(1) Fifteen per cent shall be appropriated into the emergency and budget reserve fund under section 328L‑3;
(2) Twelve and one-half per cent shall be appropriated into the Hawaii tobacco prevention and control trust fund under section 328L-5;
(3) Twenty-six per
cent shall be appropriated into the university revenue-undertakings fund
created in section 304A‑2167.5, to be applied to the payment of the
principal of and interest on, and to generate required coverage, if any, for[,]
revenue bonds issued by the board of regents of the University of Hawaii to
finance the cost of construction of a university health and wellness center,
including a new medical school facility, to be situated on the island of Oahu;
[and]
(4) Ten per cent shall be appropriated to the
executive office on aging for purposes of the kupuna care program and kupuna
caregivers program; provided that the allocation between the two programs shall
be determined by the executive office on aging; and
[(4)] (5)
Any remaining amounts shall be deposited to the credit of the state
general fund;
in the succeeding fiscal year."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.
Report Title:
Kupuna Care; Kupuna Caregivers; Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund; Department of Health
Description:
Specifies that ten per cent of the moneys in the Hawaii tobacco settlement special fund shall be appropriated to the executive office on aging for purposes of the kupuna care program and the kupuna caregivers program. (SD1)
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