STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1012

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 474

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 474, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FALL PREVENTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Health to fund a fall prevention and early detection coordinator position.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging; American Medical Response; AARP Hawaiʻi; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) prevention and early detection coordinator position to an unspecified number.

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. 474, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 474, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair