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.  711

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1258

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1258 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to honor individuals serving on the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs by allowing the Policy Advisory Board to grant lifetime membership to a board member.

 

     The County of Hawaii Office of Aging and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Executive Office on Aging provided comments.

 

     Your Committee finds that the intent of this measure is to honor individuals serving on the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs.  The measure, as drafted, granting irrevocable privileges to a board member may have constitutional concerns.  To effectuate the purpose of this measure, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Instead, authorizing the Board to award to a member the "lifetime honorary kupuna" title by a meeting called for that purpose and attended by a quorum;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Governor to take the award to the member of the "lifetime honorary kupuna" title into consideration when considering the reappointment of that member to the Board;

 

     (3)  Clarifying that the Governor may reappoint the member who holds the "lifetime honorary kupuna" title to continued terms over the member's lifetime; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1258, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1258, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair