STAND. COM. REP. NO.  322

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 814

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 814 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to assure the well-being of the State's older adults by stimulating and coordinating gerontological and aging instruction, research, and community services.  Specifically, this bill appropriates funds for additional faculty positions to staff the Center on Aging Research and Education.

     The Hawaii Aging Advocates Coalition, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The University of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.  Kokua Council supported this bill with amendments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1)  Changing the appropriation amounts to $1 to encourage further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 814, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 814, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Human Services & Housing,

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair