Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 829 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide services to Maui County's disabled and chronically ill adults and frail elderly by appropriating $96,000 as a grant-in-aid for the Personal Care Program at Hale Mahaolu in Maui County.

Hale Mahaolu, a member of the Maui County Council, and Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc., testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services supported the intent of this measure. The Department of the Attorney General offered comments.

Your Committee finds that the need for personal care services on Maui has increased, while funding for Hale Mahaolu's programs has decreased.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 829, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 829, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.