Bill Text: HI HB611 | 2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Making An Appropriation For The Alzheimer's Disease And Related Dementia Services Coordinator Position.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-17 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) DeCoite, Tokioka excused (2). [HB611 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-HB611-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA SERVICES COORDINATOR POSITION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the Hawaii 2025: State Plan Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias, published by the executive office on aging, identifies goals and key strategies to improve the lives of the numerous families affected by the disease. The legislature further finds that Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and that it affects twenty-seven thousand Hawaii residents, a number that will increase by more than forty per cent by the year 2025. The legislature also finds that an estimated sixty-five thousand unpaid caregivers in this State provide seventy-four million hours of unpaid care each year.
With the significantly high number of individuals affected by Alzheimer's disease as a person having the disease or as a caregiver, and the substantial projected increase by 2025, there is a need for a coordinated and prepared support system to address the multitude of issues arising from addressing the disease. While the Hawaii 2025: State Plan Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias identifies strategies to address the disease, the services and activities require coordination at a systemic level, such as through a coordinator position.
The purpose of this Act is to make an appropriation for an Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2017-2018 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for the establishment of one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position, exempt from chapter 76, Hawaii Revised Statutes, within the executive office on aging.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2075.
Report Title:
Kupuna Caucus; Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Services Coordinator; Appropriation
Description:
Makes an appropriation for the Alzheimer's disease and related dementia services coordinator position. (HB611 HD1)
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