STAND. COM. REP. NO. 567

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 23

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 23 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ADULT AND YOUTH DAY CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to Health for All to operate a three-year pilot project at the Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Care Center.

One individual submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services and the Department of Health submitted comments.

Health for All is a community-based safety net health and social services agency serving low-income people in the most ethnically diverse and impoverished communities. Based in Sacramento, California, Health for All is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Health for All serves people who would not otherwise receive appropriate health and social services, including disadvantaged children, adolescents, young parents, and the frail elderly. The organization operates two major programs, adult day health care centers and community clinics.

This measure funds the operation of a three-year pilot project at the Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Care Center and Youth Day Care Center at the Hikimoe Street facility. The program helps adults continue to live in the community instead of at a long-term care facility.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Making an appropriation of $100,000 in each year of the fiscal biennium; and

(2) Requiring Health for All to submit an annual report detailing its expenditures to the Legislature.

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 S.B. No. 23, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 23, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair