Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 883, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support efforts to investigate suspected incidences of dependent adult abuse, including financial exploitation, by appropriating funds to establish the following positions in the Department of Human Services (DHS), Adult Protective Services Program:

(1) One Social Worker IV;

(2) One Auditor III; and

(3) One Social Services Assistant III.

The Adult and Community Care Services Branch Advisory Council and a concerned citizen supported this bill. DHS offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 883, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 883, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.