STAND. COM. REP. NO.  528-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1983

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1983 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SAFETY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect the health and safety of senior citizens by implementing a Silver Alert Program, to be operated in conjunction with the Maile Amber Alert Program, to enlist the aid of the public to help locate missing senior citizens with an impaired mental condition.

The Alzheimer's Association supported this bill.  The State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported the bill's intent.  The Department of Defense, Civil Defense Division; and the Honolulu Police Department opposed this bill.  A concerned citizen provided comments on this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

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

Your Committee notes the opposition of, and concerns raised by, State Civil Defense in its testimony and respectfully requests that your Committee on Judiciary discuss this further, should it choose to consider this measure

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1983, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1983, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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MELE CARROLL, Chair