STAND. COM. REP. NO.  177

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 498

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 498 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE ADULT PROTECTIVE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES BRANCH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make appropriations to the Department of Human Services to fund various positions in the Adult Protective and Community Services Branch.  

 

     The Maui County Office on Aging testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting specific appropriation amounts; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee respectfully requests appropriating:

 

     (1)  For the Adult Protective and Community Services Branch:

 

(A)  $28,183 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $51,930 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund two full-time equivalent permanent child/adult protective services specialist positions (2.0 FTE) to investigate reports of vulnerable adult abuse and neglect in the Oahu Section;

 

(B)  $14,002 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $23,070 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund one full-time equivalent permanent general professional III position (1.0 FTE) to provide financial review, analysis, and support for the Oahu Section;

 

(C)  $30,283 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $56,202 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund two full-time equivalent permanent assistant program administrator V positions (2.0 FTE) to provide support for the program development office;

 

(D)  $42,274 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $77,895 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund three full-time equivalent permanent child/adult protective services specialist positions (3.0 FTE) to provide statewide intake functions to the Oahu Adult Intake Unit; and

 

(E)  $49,379 for the fiscal year 2015-2016 and $98,094 for the fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund two full-time equivalent permanent registered nurse IV positions (2.0 FTE) to provide nursing support for Adult Protective Services investigations in the West Hawaii and Kauai Sections; and

 

     (2)  For the Foster Grandparent Program and Senior Companion Program, $18,338 for fiscal year 2015-2016 and $34,605 for fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund one full-time equivalent permanent program specialist III position (1.0 FTE) to provide program support in Maui County.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 498, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 498, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair