STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2468

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2129

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2129 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELDER AFFAIRS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the Director of the Executive Office on Aging from altering or withholding any work product issued by Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs (PABEA).

     Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Executive Office on Aging.

     Your Committee finds that when the Legislature creates boards and commissions, often the expectation is that the work of those bodies shall inform policy making.  The intent of this particular measure is to allow PABEA to issue public policy positions of its own accord.  Your Committee has voted to move this measure forward in the hopes of continuing the discussion of what role boards and commissions should play generally in relation to policy making. 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2129, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2129, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing,

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair