STAND. COM. REP. NO. 826-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2522
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2522, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADVANCE HEALTH-CARE
     DIRECTIVES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow individuals the option
to indicate on driver's licenses and State identification cards
the existence of an advance health-care directive.

     The Executive Office on Aging, Hawaii Coalition for
Affordable Long Term Care, Policy Advisory Board for Elder
Affairs, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and an individual
supported this bill.  The Attorney General supported this bill
with suggested amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Increasing the ceiling of the State Identification
          Revolving Fund by $6,000 to cover the costs to
          implement this new directive; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes
          of style and clarity.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
 
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2522, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2522, H.D.
2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair