STAND. COM. REP. NO.  358

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 1 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to contract for the performance of an actuarial analysis for a limited, mandatory, public long term care insurance program for the State's working population.

 

     The Executive Office on Aging, AARP, Hawaii Alliance for Retired Americans, National Association of Social Workers Hawaii Chapter, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors and two individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  An individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to contract for the performance of a policy analysis of a limited, mandatory, public long term care insurance program for the State's working population.  This analysis shall include, among other things, not only an analysis of policy options recommended by the Long-Term Care Commission, but alternatives such as tax incentives for long term care insurance purchase and the Medicaid/long term care public private partnership plan adopted in other states;

 

     (2)  Adding language that specifies additional information that the actuarial analysis shall include;

 

     (3)  Adding an appropriation for the performance of the policy analysis; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

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

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair