Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 527, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds from the emergency and budget reserve fund for human service and health care programs statewide.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the proposed appropriations from the emergency and budget reserve fund, and adding language that amends section 103F-104, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to accord the area office on aging of each county the option of purchasing health and human services for the elderly pursuant to either chapter 103D (state procurement law) or 103F (purchases of health and human services), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

In so doing, your Committee recognizes that the option of applying either chapter 103D or 103F will greatly facilitate the provision of health and human services to elders under programs administered by the area offices on aging of the counties.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 527, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 527, S.D. 2.