Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 3229 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the chore services program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services, the Hawaii Disability Rights Center, an individual who is a member of the Kokua Council, and an individual who is a member of the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs (PABEA).

Your Committee finds that this measure will support and expand the chore services program to assist Hawaii's elderly and disabled population and will eliminate the program's waiting list.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting the figure of $4,056,471.

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. 3229, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3229, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.