CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 90-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1878

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sirs:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1878, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGING,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Appropriate funds for the Kupuna Care Program, aging and disability resource centers (ADRCs), fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly, the Healthy Aging Partnership Program, an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position, and an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness campaign; and

 

(2)  Require the Executive Office on Aging to develop a system of evaluation to determine the effectiveness of ADRCs in each county and to submit its evaluation findings to the Legislature no later than 60 days prior to the 2017 Regular Session (evaluation findings).

 

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Deleting appropriations for the Kupuna Care Program, the Healthy Aging Partnership Program, an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position, and an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia public awareness campaign;

 

(2)  Appropriating $1,700,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 for ADRCs and $32,000 for fiscal year 2016-2017 for fall prevention and early detection services for the elderly;

 

(3)  Requiring the Executive Office on Aging to submit the evaluation findings to the Legislature no later than 60 days prior to the 2018 Regular Session, in addition to the report to be submitted before the 2017 Regular Session;

 

(4)  Requiring the Executive Office on Aging to submit a report to the Legislature no later than 60 days prior to the 2017 and 2018 Regular Sessions on its implementation of the federal No Wrong Door/Aging and Disability Resource Center network implementation grant it received in 2015;

 

(5)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2016; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1878, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1878, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Co-Chair

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Co-Chair

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Co-Chair

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Co-Chair