STAND. COM. REP. NO.  149-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2696

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2696 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a long-term care financing task force to determine the feasibility of establishing and implementing a limited, mandatory, public long-term care insurance program.

The Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, ILWU Union Local 142, and an individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and AARP Hawaii commented on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2696, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2696, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

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

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair