STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1038

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 1486

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1486, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE KUPUNA CARE PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health for the Kupuna Care Program within the Executive Office on Aging.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, Rainbow Family 808, AARP Hawai‘i, and four individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Executive Office on Aging and one individual.

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 H.B. No. 1486, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair