Bill Text: HI HB1258 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs; Lifetime Membership

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-10 - Act 008, 4/10/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1108). [HB1258 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1258-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 934

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1258

       H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1258, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs to honor a non ex-officio member with an honorary kupuna title;

 

     (2)  Require the Governor to consider the honorary title when considering the honoree's reappointment to the Board; and

 

     (3)  Authorize the Governor to reappoint an honoree for continued terms over the honoree's lifetime.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the County of Hawaii Office on Aging, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that current lifetime non ex-officio members of the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs are not granted all of the privileges of regular membership, including the right to vote.  These lifetime members are honored and respected members of the aging community and deserve to be treated as full members of the Board.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1258, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

 

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair