STAND. COM. REP. NO. 545

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                   

 

RE:     S.B. No. 1024

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1024 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the Aging and Disability Resource Center.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, County of Hawaii Office of Aging, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Women's Coalition, Zonta Club of Hilo, and four individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds the State's Aging and Disability Resource Center is a navigational tool intended to streamline access to long-term supports and services for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and family caregivers.  Funding for the Aging and Disability Resource Center also supports county area agencies, which provide aging and disability resource centers at the county level.  Your Committee further finds that funding for the Aging and Disability Resource Center will help sustain the capacity for the Executive Office on Aging and the county Area Agencies on Aging to operate as a statewide, fully functional Aging and Disability Resource Center.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1024 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair