STAND. COM. REP. NO.  750

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 827

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 827 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELDERLY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the counties as a grants-in-aid to financially assist caregiving programs that experienced federal funding cuts so they may continue to provide services to their clients and their clients' caregivers.

 

     The City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Aging Advocates Coalition, Child and Family Services, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and Anuenue Hale, Inc. supported this bill.

 

     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. 827 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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