STAND. COM. REP. NO. 616

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 Health & Homelessness, to which was referred H.B. No. 1486 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 for the Kupuna Care Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Executive Office on Aging, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, AARP Hawai‘i, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the Kupuna Care Program was enacted in 1999 and assists older adults and their caregivers with much needed home and community-based services. Kupuna Care services include services to support activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, toileting, and eating; instrumental activities of daily living, such as medication management; and other services, such as housekeeping, personal care, adult day care, respite care, and caregiver support services. This measure is intended to support the Kupuna Care Program through the appropriation of funds that will enable the Executive Office on Aging to target and triage additional clients according to each individual's needs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $1,800,000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Homelessness that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1486, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1486, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Homelessness,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair