Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3252 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Executive Office on Aging to coordinate a statewide system of family caregiver support services and policies.

Your Committees find that many older residents in the State cannot live on their own without some level of assistance from family members or assistance programs such as the kupuna services program. Caregivers enable Hawaii's older adults to live independently and safely and to remain healthy for as long as possible.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Executive Office on Aging and the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs.

Your Committees have amended this measure by incorporating the provisions of S.B. No. 2130, making an appropriation for the coordination and development of family caregiver support services, and the provisions of S.B. No. 2441, making an appropriation for the kupuna care program. Your Committees also have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3252, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3252, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.