STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1101-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1916

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1916, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prepare for an expected increase in the population affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias by requiring the Executive Office on Aging to annually update the State Plan on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias and appropriating funds for the Executive Office on Aging to update the state plan.

 

     The Alzheimer's Association, Aloha Chapter testified in support of this measure.  The Executive Office on Aging provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to an unspecified amount; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1916, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1916, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair