Appropriates funds for the Sage PLUS program to expand services to the neighbor islands and to support the program's operating costs. (SB2563 HD1)

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The Sage PLUS program provides assistance at no charge to people receiving medicare and medicaid benefits, as well as their families, caregivers, and people on the verge of retirement.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for operating costs to expand and support the Sage PLUS program on the neighbor islands.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $104,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007 for operation and delivery of the Sage PLUS program on the neighbor islands.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this section.

SECTION 3. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $64,500 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007 for the recruitment, training, and sustaining of volunteers to augment the Sage PLUS program staff, and for operating costs of the neighbor island Sage PLUS program staff.

The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this section.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.