STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2067

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2831

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2831 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CENTER ON AGING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii Center on Aging Research and Education for faculty positions and program expenses.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the University of Hawaii, the Maui County Executive on Aging, the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, the Hawaii Aging Advocates Coalition, Kokua Council, and two individuals.

     Your Committees find that Hawaii needs an appropriate, well-funded partner like the Center on Aging Education and Research to coordinate the research, education, and training needs of an aging state network faced with an increasing number of adults who are living longer and have special needs. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making one technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2831, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2831, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair