Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3252, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to coordinate and develop family caregiver support services and policies statewide.

This measure also expands kupuna care services, the Executive Office on Aging's statewide long-term care program.

Your Committee understands that eligibility requirements, service complexity, and service fragmentation are the top barriers to coordinating caregiver support programs. This measure will help to coordinate access to services across all care settings for Hawaii's family caregivers and their loved ones.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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. 3252, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3252, S.D. 2.