STAND. COM. REP. 1419

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 457

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 457, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIPAHU COMMUNITY ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER AND YOUTH DAY CARE CENTER PILOT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center and Youth Day Care Center pilot project.

Two individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Health submitted comments.

Your Committee wishes to note that the State constitution stipulates that appropriations need to be made for a public purpose. By passing this measure, your Committee expresses its view that the type of care to be provided by the Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center and Youth Day Care Center will help to mitigate the need for more intensive and more expensive types of care which would otherwise be required. The care of Hawaii's aging adults as well as for its youth serves to reduce the burden upon families and taxpayers, and therefore serves a public purpose.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; 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 S.B. No. 457, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 457, S.D. 1,

H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair