STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2211

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 366

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 366, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Executive Office on Aging to fund the existing position of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator and to establish the new position of Program Specialist IV.

The Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, Zonta Club of Hilo, Chinatown Gateway Plaza Tenant Association, Oahu County Democrats, Alzheimer’s Association Aloha Chapter, and several individuals supported this measure. The Executive Office on Aging provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator shall be exempt from civil service and collective bargaining laws;

(2) Inserting an annual appropriation amount of $59,616 for the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator position, for fiscal biennium 2019-2021;

(3) Removing the Program Specialist IV position;

(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2019; and

(5) 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 S.B. No. 366, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 366, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair