STAND. COM. REP. NO. 180-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 1858

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. 1858 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELDER ABUSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify that the Attorney General may bring a civil action on behalf of the State against employees or agents of the State, whose duty is to oversee or manage the financial affairs of a dependent elder.

The Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and several individuals supported this measure. The Department of Human Services provided comments.

Your Committee notes that the Department of Human Services defers to the Department of the Attorney General and the Judiciary on this measure. The Department of the Attorney General provided no opinion on the measure. The Judiciary stated that there are added costs for the implementation of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage 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. 1858, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1858, 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