Bill Text: HI SB2779 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Aging and Disability Resource Centers; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-06 - (S) Act 237, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1340). [SB2779 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2779-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2239

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2779

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2779 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE AGING AND DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish aging and disability resource centers in each county to streamline access to long-term supports and services for older adults, persons with disabilities, and family caregivers.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging of the Department of Health; State Council on Developmental Disabilities; the Disability and Communication Access Board; the Office of Aging, County of Hawai‘i; the Department of Community Services, City and County of Honolulu; the Kauai County Agency on Elderly Affairs; the Maui County Office on Aging, Department of Housing and Human Concerns, County of Maui; AARP; the Healthcare Association of Hawaii; the Kewalo Hawaiian Homestead Community Association; the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs; and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the four county area agencies on aging, and the home and community-based services strategies have developed a five-year plan to implement three initiatives:  (1) a statewide Aging and Disability Resource Center effort that will meet the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging's criteria for a fully functioning Aging and Disability Resource Center; (2) the Community Living Program; and (3) the person-centered Hospital Discharge Planning initiative.  This measure will assist the Executive Office on Aging and the area agencies on aging in implementing the five-year plan.

 

     Your Committee further finds that the definition of "developmental disability" is not in accordance with the definition in the Developmental Disability Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000, P.L. 106-402, and the definition of "intellectual disability" is not in accordance with the definition used by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending the definitions of "aging and disability resource centers", "area agency on aging", "dementia", "developmental disability", "options counseling", and "intellectual disability";

 

     (2)  Adding kupuna care to the list of federal, state, and county revenue-funded programs and services for which persons may access information through an aging and disability resource center;

 

     (3)  Requiring the Executive Office on Aging, rather than the area agencies on aging, to coordinate the implementation of the statewide Aging and Disability Resource Center;

 

     (4)  Requiring the Aging and Disability Resource Centers to be a function of each area agency on aging within the respective geographic service areas;

 

     (5)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $1,400,000 and changing the fiscal year of the appropriation to fiscal year 2012-2013;

 

     (6)  Changing the expending agency for the appropriation from the Executive Office on Aging to the Department of Health;

 

     (7)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2012; and

 

     (8)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 2779, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2779, 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,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair