STAND. COM. REP. NO.  11-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.B. No. 1759

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1759 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ELDERLY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide an additional mechanism to protect the elderly against financial exploitation by making the financial exploitation of an elder by a caregiver a class A felony.

The Department of Human Services, Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and two concerned individuals supported this measure.

     Your Committee amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to facilitate further discussion. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1759, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1759, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair