Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 457 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for operation of the Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center and Youth Day Care Center pilot project for two years.

Testimony supporting this measure was received from the Health for All and one individual. The Senator representing the 18th Senatorial District orally testified in support of the measure. The Department of Health submitted testimony supporting only the intent of the measure.

Your Committees find that the elderly and disabled adults in the community require specialized programs to maintain their vitality in comfortable settings. These programs assist in strengthening the physical and emotional state of the participants thereby reducing expenditures for additional medical expenses and the economic costs to families and the government.

The Waipahu community, eager to provide these services to its residents, has taken the initiative and spearheaded the development and construction of the Waipahu Community Adult Day Health Center and Youth Day Care Center (Center). This effort has resulted in procurement of a thirty-nine year land lease for $1 per year, a $2.7 million block grant, and a $270,000 grant from the Harry and Jeannette Weinberg Foundation. Construction of the Center has commenced and will be completed April 2003. However, funds are necessary to operate the Center.

Your Committees believe that this measure provides the necessary funds to operate the Center as a pilot project for two years.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 457 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.