STAND. COM. REP. NO.  876

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 131

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 131, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOBILITY MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish a Task Force on Mobility Management within the Department of Health to make recommendations on establishing a transportation framework to assist elders and individuals with disabilities with transportation needs in rural communities.

The County of Hawaii Office of Aging, Maui County Office on Aging, the Kauai Agency on Elderly Affairs, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Executive Office on Aging provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the general fund appropriation for the staffing, operation, and convening of the Task Force on Mobility Management to an unspecified amount; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 131, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 131, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair