STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2547

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2226

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2226, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SENIOR CITIZENS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a task force to develop an efficient, cost-effective process for creating and operating an identification database of senior citizens to be used when senior citizens go missing.

     Your Committee finds that there is a growing problem with senior citizens going missing within the community and not being able to find their way back to their homes or tell others where they live.  Your Committee also finds that an identification system would aid the agencies responsible for finding missing or lost senior citizens with getting them back to their homes.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2226, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2226, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair