Bill Text: HI SR24 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Home for Life Task Force; Extension of Report to Legislature SD1

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Passed) 2010-03-04 - (S) Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). [SR24 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SR24-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2643

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 24

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.R. No. 24 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR THE HOME FOR LIFE TASK FORCE TO REPORT ON ITS FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REDUCING BARRIERS TO AGING IN PLACE AND FACILITATING MULTIGENERATIONAL LIVING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend 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.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Occupational Therapy Association of Hawaii, the Kokua Council, the Disability and Communication Access Board and one individual.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Home for Life Task Force was originally conceived in 2009 pursuant to S.C.R. No. 7, S.D. 1 (2009).  However, the Task Force has been unable to begin its requested responsibilities due to Governor's nonappointment of members to the Task Force.  This measure extends the report submission deadline for one year so that, when the Governor appoints her Task Force representatives, the Task Force will be able to complete its work and report to the Legislature.

 

     Your Committee also finds that aging in place is a very important issue to many people in the community including the families of the elderly.  Your Committee further finds that entire families are affected when an elder becomes ill or is in need of assistance, and that the findings of the Task Force are vital to being able to develop adequate strategies for aging in place and multigenerational living. 

 

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 24, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 24, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair