STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 250-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2935

H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2935 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELDERLY IDENTIFICATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help elderly individuals and their families by appropriating funds allowing the Executive Office on Aging's (EOA) SageWatch Program to adopt the Kupuna I.D. Project, a program currently under the Department of the Attorney General (AG) that assists senior citizens when they become disoriented, sick, or lost.

The Department of the (AG), County of Kauai's Agency on Elder Affairs, and Kauai Search and Rescue testfied in support of this bill. The EOA supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to $1 to encourage further discussion;

(2) Eliminating the provision that the appropriation be used for the funding of two positions; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity 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 H.B. No. 2935, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2935, 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,

____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair