STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 283-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2113

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2113 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY CAREGIVERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to strengthen a vital component in Hawaii's long-term care system by supporting the efforts of caregivers. This bill seeks to coordinate and develop family caregiver services statewide by:

(1) Authorizing the Executive Office on Aging to hire a statewide family caregiver services coordinator;

(2) Establishing an Advisory Board for Family Caregivers of Seniors (Advisory Board); and

(3) Appropriating funds:

(a) For the family caregiver services coordinator and Advisory Board;

(b) To train family caregivers of seniors; and

The City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, Kokua Council, and three individuals testified in support of this bill. Your Committees also received a petition signed by 44 individuals in support of this bill. The Executive Office on Aging opposed this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Inserting the sum of $1 for the purpose of continued discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and to correct drafting errors.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2113, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2113, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing,

____________________________ MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair