Bill Text: HI SB54 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs; Lifetime Membership
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Received notice of appointment of House conferees (Hse. Com. No. 699). [SB54 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB54-Amended.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO AGING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 349-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§349-4 Policy advisory board for
elder affairs[.]; lifetime membership. (a) There
shall be a policy advisory board for elder affairs, appointed by the governor
under section 26-34. The board shall advise the director in, but not limited
to, the following areas:
(1) The identification of issues and alternative approaches to solutions;
(2) The development of position statements and papers;
(3) Advocacy and legislative actions; and
(4) Program development and operations.
The board shall consist of not less than twenty-one
nor more than twenty-nine members, a majority of whom are over sixty years of
age and who shall be selected on the basis of their interests and knowledge in
and their ability to make contributions to the solution of problems relating to
aging, and shall include at least one member from the county of Hawaii, one
member from the county of Maui, one member from the county of Kauai, and one
member from the city and county of Honolulu. There shall be nine members who
shall serve as ex officio members and shall be chosen from among the heads of
the following state agencies which provide services or programs affecting
elders: health, human services, education, labor and industrial relations,
University of Hawaii, transportation, the state retirement system, the office
of consumer protection, and, by invitation, the Hawaii representative of the
United States Department of Health[, Education and Welfare.] and
Human Services. Of the non ex officio members, one-third of the members
shall be appointed for the term of four years, one-third for the term of three
years, and one-third for the term of two years; and thereafter the terms of
office of each member shall be four years. The members shall serve without
compensation, but shall be paid their necessary expenses in attending meetings
and carrying out the responsibilities of the board. The chairperson shall be
elected annually from the nongovernmental members of the board. There shall be
not less than twelve meetings of the board each year.
(b) The board, by a majority vote at a meeting called for the purpose and attended by a quorum, may recommend to the governor that the governor honor a non ex officio member by a lifetime appointment to the board. If the governor accepts the board's recommendation, the non ex officio member so honored shall have all the rights and privileges of a non ex officio member for a term limited only by the non ex officio member's lifetime. The lifetime appointment shall be made by the governor without regard to section 26-34."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs; Lifetime Membership
Description:
Allows the policy advisory board for elder affairs to recommend to the governor to honor non ex officio members by lifetime membership, which includes all the rights and privileges of a non ex officio member, upon approval by all regular members of the board. (SD1)
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