Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1119 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to accommodate a broader range of home- and community-based long-term care options by establishing a Long-term Care Resource Program Initiative at Kapiolani Community College.

The Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs and Kokua Council testified in support of this measure. Kapiolani Community College supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Health recommended that this bill be deferred.

Your Committees acknowledge the great need to expand and make available various types of long-term care services to provide for Hawaii's rapidly increasing elder population. However, there are concerns that this measure could duplicate existing efforts.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1119, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1119, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.