STAND. COM. REP. NO. 654

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 137

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 137, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health to establish a permanent full-time position to facilitate the licensing of home care agencies.

     Your Committee finds that measures must be taken to ensure that Hawaii's elderly population is receiving the highest quality care from home care providers.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity; and

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion on the measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 137, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 137, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair