STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1154
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 527
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 527, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PURCHASES OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide quality elderly care by giving county area agencies on aging more resources to procure the health and human services they need. Specifically, this bill will give these agencies access to purchasing privileges, and pricing contracts that are currently only available to state agencies.
The Office of Aging of the County of Hawaii supported this measure. The Executive Office on Aging and State Procurement Office supported the intent of this measure.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Replacing the provision relating to procurement of health and human services by county area agencies on aging, with provisions authorizing all county agencies to contract for health or human services in the same manner that the State contracts for these services; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,
consistency, and style.
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. 527, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 527, S.D. 2, 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,
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____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair |
____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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