STAND. COM. REP. NO. 825
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 1103
S.D. 2
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. 1103, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO HALE MAHAOLU FOR PERSONAL CARE PROGRAM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds as a grant to Hale Mahaolu for its personal care program.
Your Committee finds that providing personal care services to Maui County's disabled and/or chronically ill adults enables them to maintain an independent lifestyle in their own homes, and prevents premature or unnecessary institutionalization. While the need for personal care services has increased, program funds have been reduced. Thus, your Committee believes that providing services to these clients to allow them to maintain an independent lifestyle in their own homes reduces costs of long term care for families, communities and government.
Your Committee has amended the measure by:
(1) Changing the source of funding for the appropriation from the General Fund to the Emergency Budget and Reserve Fund established under section 328L-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(2) Deleting the specific amount of $96,000 and replacing it with an unspecified amount; and
(3) Making two technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity.
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. 1103, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1103, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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