STAND. COM. REP. NO.  337-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 1902

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1902 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to support and improve future long-term care services in Hawaii by extending the sunset date and legislative reporting of the Long Term Care Commission (LTCC).

     Hawaii Pacific Health and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported this bill.  The Chairperson of the LTCC offered comments on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by changing the due dates of the interim and final reports the LTCC is required to submit to the Legislature to January 19, 2011, and January 18, 2012, respectively.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1902, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1902, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair