Report Title:

Appropriation; Center on Aging Research and Education

 

Description:

Establishes five additional faculty positions at the center on aging research and education to assist in the fulfillment of its mission and appropriates funds for that purpose.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1185

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to aging.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the mission of the center on aging research and education is to assure the well-being of the State's older adults by stimulating and coordinating gerontological and aging instruction, research, and community services.  The legislature further finds that a goal of the center on aging research and education is to develop a research center that is renowned for its generation of knowledge that supports the development of relevant social and economic policies pertaining to the elder population, as no such entity exists in Hawaii or the region.

     Currently, there is an urgent need to engage in gerontological research given the radical demographic shifts related to the growing aging population in Hawaii and in Asia and the Pacific.

     However, reliable general funding is necessary to attract renowned scholars from the Asian and Pacific regions and nationally to study the aging phenomenon and serve to train professionals for work in the field of gerontology.  The legislature believes that, given proper staffing levels, the center on aging research and education can become a viable research and training center for addressing local and Asian and Pacific regional issues.

     The purpose of this Act is to establish five additional faculty positions at the center on aging research and education to assist the center in the fulfillment of its mission, and to appropriate funds for that purpose.

     SECTION 2.  The University of Hawaii shall establish five additional faculty positions at the center on aging research and education to assist the center on aging research and education in the fulfillment of its mission.

     SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $350,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009, for five additional faculty positions to staff the center on aging research and education.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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