Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 481 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to continue and expand the Home Safety Monitoring Program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-Hilo).

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the County of Hawaii Office of Aging. Testimony supporting the intent of this measure was submitted by UH-Hilo.

Your Committees recognize that elderly adults can be frail and may require education and information on self care and fall prevention. This measure supports the Home Safety Monitoring Program to provide greater independence for the elderly and will decrease Medicare and health costs.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 481, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 481, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.