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. 2772

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2779

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2779, S.D. 1, 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 and appropriate funds for the Aging and Disability Resource Centers Program for purposes of streamlining and increasing access to long-term supports and services.  

 

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging and the Department of Community Services, City and County of Honolulu.  Your Committee received written comments from the Maui County Office on Aging.

 

     Your Committee finds that establishing Aging and Disability Resource Centers in each county will assist people in accessing and navigating the complex state long-term care system.  Centralizing the application processes will increase access to programs and ensure that services will be provided to the most economically needy seniors and disabled persons.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount for purposes of further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2779, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2779, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair