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 Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1534 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the State to adopt certain general principles as a matter of state policy to improve long-term care by:

The Department of Human Services supported this measure. The Department of Health, State Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities, Executive Office on Aging, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, Disability and Communication Access Board, AARP Hawaii, Coalition for Affordable Long Term Care, and the Hawaii Long Term Care Association submitted testimony supporting the intent of this measure.

Your Committees find that the increasing demand for long-term care in Hawaii needs to be addressed by considering alternative methods of delivering service and reimbursement to providers. Further, the process of providing care should be streamlined.

Your Committees have amended this bill by deleting its contents and inserting the substance of H.B. No. 285, which was reported from your Committees earlier this session. As amended, this bill:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1534, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1534, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.