S.D. 1

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 244 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the law relating to long-term care.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that establishes a long-term care resource program initiative at Kapiolani community college to develop an adaptable model for expanding the State's workforce capacity for home- and community-based care to effectively care for Hawaii's aging population.

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 S.B. No. 244, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 244, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Human Services, for further consideration.