Bill Text: HI HCR24 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Home for Life Task Force

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-4)

Status: (Passed) 2011-04-21 - (H) Resolution adopted in final form. [HCR24 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2011-HCR24-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.C.R. NO.	24
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

extending the deadline for the home for life task force to report its findings and recommendations for reducing barriers to aging in place and facilitating multigenerational living.

 

 

     WHEREAS, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 7, S.D. 1, 2009, requested the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Governor to form the Home for Life Task Force (Task Force) to coordinate research and action to reduce barriers to aging in place and to facilitate multigenerational or accessible living, pursuant to the recommendation of the Joint Legislative Committee on Aging in Place; and

 

     WHEREAS, the foregoing Concurrent Resolution also requested the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Governor to each appoint six members of the Task Force comprising individuals from designated entities and agencies involved in providing services in furtherance of aging in place; and

 

     WHEREAS, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives each appointed six members, yet the Governor had not appointed anyone. The delay in the appointment of members meant the Task Force could not begin or complete its work. Thus, in the 2010 Regular Session, the Senate and the House of Representatives adopted House Concurrent Resolution No. 13 (2010), authorizing an extension of the reporting deadline applicable to the Task Force; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Task Force convened their first meeting on June 30, 2010, a date significantly later than anticipated due to the absence of gubernatorial representatives; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Task Force has diligently met six times since beginning its work. However, the members feel their findings are only in the preliminary stages. The Task Force is not yet in a position to make comprehensive, systematic recommendations, or propose legislation; and

 

     WHEREAS, the current deadline for the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations is twenty days prior to the convening of the 2011 Legislature; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Task Force has completed an interim report, but not a final report; and

 

     WHEREAS, to continue work on the unresolved issues, an extension of the reporting deadline for the final report applicable to the Task Force is required; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2011, the Senate concurring, that the deadline for the Home for Life Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature is extended to June 30, 2012; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Director of the Executive Office on Aging, the Executive Director of the Building Code Council, the Comptroller, the Director of Health, the Director of Human Services, the Executive Director of the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, the Licensing Administrator for the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional and Vocational Licensing Division, the Executive Director of the Disability and Communication Access Board, the President of the University of Hawaii System, the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, the President of the Building Industry Association of Hawaii, and the Mayor of each county.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Home for Life Task Force