STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1361

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to study the feasibility of a long term care financing program for the State's working population.

 

More specifically, this measure:

 

(1)  Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to contract for a feasibility study to design a limited, mandatory, public long term care financing program;

 

(2)  Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to contract for the performance of an actuarial analysis by a licensed actuary;

 

(3)  Requires the feasibility study and the actuarial analysis to be submitted to the Director of the Executive Office on Aging by June 30, 2014;

 

(4)  Requires the Director of the Executive Office on Aging to submit a report of the Director's findings and recommendations, based upon the feasibility study and actuarial analysis, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the Regular Session of 2015; and

 

(5)  Makes an appropriation of an unspecified amount for the performance of the feasibility study and the actuarial analysis.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging, the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, AARP-Hawaii, and the ILWU Local 142.

 

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's rapidly aging population makes it necessary to address the need for and the cost of long term care in this State.  Your Committee also finds that this measure will help to determine the feasibility and sustainability of providing a long term care program for working individuals in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to clarify the intent that the feasibility study and actuarial analysis must address the enumerated issues provided in the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair