Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

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 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to the allow area office on aging of each county the option to purchase health and human services for the aged through chapter 103F or chapter 103D.

The Executive Office on Aging, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, the National Association of Social Workers, and one individual submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Budget and Finance submitted comments.

Your Committees find that expenditures from the emergency budget and reserve fund established by section 328L-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are needed to meet the emergency economic situation currently facing the State.

Upon further consideration, your Committees amended this measure by deleting the provision pertaining to the Executive Office on Aging that would give county offices on aging the ability to decide whether to make procurements through chapter 103D or chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and appropriated funds from the emergency budget and reserve fund for various health and human services programs for fiscal year 2006-2007.

Your Committees note that testimony was given regarding incorporation of that part of the earlier version of this measure that pertained to the Executive Office on Aging. The original purpose of this measure was to give county offices on aging the ability to decide whether to make procurements through chapter 103D or chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes. Your Committees respectfully request the Committee on Ways and Means to include this provision into the measure that it is considering regarding procurement.

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, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 527, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.