STAND. COM. REP. NO. 125

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 549
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 549 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO ESTABLISH A
     LONG-TERM CARE VOLUNTEER OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill is to appropriate funds to establish
a long-term care volunteer ombudsman program.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from representatives of Executive Office on Aging, the Hawaii
Long Term Care Association, and the State Legislative Committee
of the American Association of Retired Persons.

     Your Committee finds that adding a cost-efficient volunteer
component to the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is an excellent
proposal, of particular benefit to residents of care facilities
on the neighbor islands.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to $1; and 

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


 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 549, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 549, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair