STAND. COM. REP. NO.  383-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1878

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1878 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for:

 

(1)  The Kupuna Care Program;

 

(2)  The Aging and Disability Resource Center;

 

(3)  Fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly;

 

(4)  The Healthy Aging Partnership Program;

 

(5)  An Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position; and

 

(6)  An Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness campaign.

 

     The City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services; PHOCUSED; Alzheimer's Association, Aloha Chapter; Catholic Charities Hawaii; ILWU Local 142; The Queen's Health Systems; Child & Family Service; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Lanakila Pacific; and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Executive Office on Aging, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Providing that the Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position shall be exempt from Chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for a period of two years;

 

(2)  Changing the appropriations to unspecified amounts; and

 

(3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2070, to facilitate further discussion.

 

Should your Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests that it consider the following appropriation requests for fiscal year 2016-2017:

 

(1)  $5,100,000 for the Kupuna Care Program;

 

(2)  $1,710,000 for the Aging and Disability Resource Center;

 

(3)  $32,000 for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly;

 

(4)  $485,880 for the Healthy Aging Partnership Program;

 

(5)  $70,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position; and

 

(6)  $200,000 for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness campaign.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1878, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1878, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair