STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2100

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: S.B. No. 1592

S.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 1592, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SENIOR MEDICARE PATROL PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish three full-time equivalent positions within the Executive Office on Aging for the State's Senior Medicare Patrol Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from AARP Hawai‘i, Hawai‘i Family Caregiver Coalition, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, The Kupuna Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and sixteen individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Executive Office on Aging.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the number of positions established by this measure to an unspecified number;

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

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of 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. 1592, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1592, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair