STAND. COM. REP. NO.
Honolulu, Hawaii
APR 0 2 2025
RE: S.R. No. 19
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.R. No. 19 entitled:
"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE TAX REVIEW COMMISSION TO
IDENTIFY POSSIBLE MEANS BY WHICH THE HAWAII LONG-TERM CARE
FINANCING PROGRAM CAN BE IMPLEMENTED,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Tax
Review Commission to identify possible means by which the Hawaii
Long-Term Care Financing Program can be implemented.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Executive Office on Aging and one individual.
Your Committee finds that the State's aging population is
expected to increase significantly, with projections that one in
four residents will be sixty-five years or older by 2035, and as
people age, they will need additional health care services to help
them with activities of daily living. Your Committee further
finds that because increasing numbers of the State's residents
will need long-term care services, there is a compelling need to
create an affordable method of financing those services. Your
Committee notes that Act 245, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002
(Act 245) established the Hawaii Long-Term Care Financing Program
(LTC Financing Program) to provide universal and affordable
long-term care for all eligible State residents regardless of
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income. However, Act 245, codified at chapter 346C, Hawaii
Revised Statutes, only established a framework for the LTC
Financing Program and therefore, the details of the program,
including how to pay for it, remain undetermined. Accordingly,
this measure initiates the analysis of possible implementations of
the Hawaii Long-Term Care Financing Program as an affordable
financing mechanism for long-term care services for the State's
increasing elderly population.
Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language
to request the Tax Review Commission to consider the findings
listed in Financing Long Term Care: A Report to the Hawaii State
Legislature, Executive Office on Aging, Office of the Governor,
July 1991, in their identification of possible means by which the
Hawaii Long-Term Care Financing Program can be implemented.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R.
No. 19, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form
attached hereto as S.R. No. 19, S.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on
behalf of the members of the
Committee on Health and Human
Services,
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 The Senate
Thirty-Third Legislature
State of Hawaii
Record of Votes
Committee on Health and Human Services
HHS
Bill / Resolution No.:* Committee Referral:
HHS, t-1
The Committee is reconsidering its previous decision on this measure.
If so, then the previous decision was to: ___________________________________
The Recommendation is:
Pass, unamended **''^ass, with amendments __ Hold __ Recommit
2312 2311 2310 2313
Members Aye , Aye (WR) Nay Excused
SAN BUENAVENTURA, Joy A. (C)
AQUINO, Henry J.C. (VC)
HASHIMOTO. Troy N.
KEOHOKALOLE, Jarrett
FEVELLA, Kurt
TOTAL /
Recommendation: .
Adopted __ Not Adopted
Chair’s or Designee’s Signature:^____ ?
_________________________ - - - —-
Distribution: Original Yellow Pink Goldenrod
File with Committee Report Clerk's Office Drafting Agency Committee File Copy
*Only one measure per Record of Votes
Revised: 12/09/24