STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2515

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2320
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2320, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A LONG-TERM CARE COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a Commission for
Long-Term Care, Disability, and Elderly Services.

     This bill establishes the Commission within the Office of
the Lieutenant Governor and appropriates start-up funds.

     Your Committee finds that a long-term care, disability, and
elderly services commission would effectively centralize these
significant issues and provide effective recommendations to the
Governor and Legislature on related policy and funding matters.
The research, grant writing, and other activities of the
Commission will supplement long-term care issues relating to
financing alternatives studied by the Joint Legislative Committee
on Long-Term Care.  Your Committee believes that the Commission
will make a positive contribution to finding solutions for
difficulties inherent in matters that include coordination of
policies and programs, funding, issues in home and community
based services and institutional care, and access to quality
services.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2320, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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