STAND. COM. REP. NO.  709-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2138

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2138 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAREGIVER RECOGNITION DAY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to embrace the spirit of gratitude and respect that caregivers deserve by designating the first Saturday of the month of November as "Caregiver Recognition Day."

 

     The Executive Office on Aging and Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs supported this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Including all long-term care facilities and community home-based institutions among those parties being recognized on "Caregiver Recognition Day;" and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the


intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2138, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2138, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair