STAND. COM. REP. NO. 986-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2224

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2224, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require and appropriate funds for the Executive Office on Aging to create a comprehensive long-term care master plan to accomplish long-term care policy goals and ensure the availability of a full continuum of institutional and community-based services; and

(2) Establish and fund a long-term care planner position to oversee the development and implementation of the long-term care master plan.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Healthcare Association of Hawaii; AARP Hawaiʻi; and Ohana Pacific Health/Hale Makua Health Services. 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 long-term care planner positions to an unspecified number; and

(2) 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 H.B. No. 2224, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2224, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair