Bill Text: HI SCR83 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requesting The Auditor To Assess Both The Social And Financial Effects Of Proposed Mandated Health Insurance Coverage That Requires Insurers, Hospital And Medical Services Plans, And Health Maintenance Organizations To Provide Coverage For Medical Procedures To Eliminate Or Provide Maximum Feasible Treatment Of Port-wine Stains.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-27 - Received notice of reconsideration, Senate agreement, and Adopted (Sen. Com. No. 847). [SCR83 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-SCR83-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	83
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

URGING THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE ON AGING TO CONDUCT A STUDY ON THE IMPACTS OF AN AGING POPULATION IN HAWAII.

 

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii's aging population is expected to increase; and

 

     WHEREAS, seventeen percent of Hawaii's existing population consists of seniors, sixty-five years of age and older; and

 

     WHEREAS, a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Hawaii has the highest life expectancy in the United States for those over sixty-five years of age; and

 

     WHEREAS, the State's total unfunded pension and health benefit liabilities total nearly $24,000,000,000; and

 

     WHEREAS, public employees of the baby boomer generation will continue to retire over the next fifteen years; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii needs to develop plans and set policies to ensure that the State is prepared for a large aging population; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2018, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Executive Office on Aging is urged to conduct a study on the impacts of an aging population in Hawaii and submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2019; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the report is requested to include:

 

     (1)  Impacts of an aging population to the State's pension and health benefit unfunded liabilities;

 

     (2)  Future government services that potentially will be needed;

 

     (3)  Recommendations on what is needed to prevent adverse impacts of an aging population; and

 

     (4)  An assessment of the availability of long-term care services and bed space in Hawaii; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Director of the Executive Office on Aging.

Report Title: 

Executive Office On Aging; Impact Study on Aging Population