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Senate committees adopt resolution asking Tax Review Commission to identify options for implementing long‑term care financing
Summary
SCR 33 / SR 19 was adopted with amendments asking the Tax Review Commission to identify possible means to implement a Hawaii long‑term care financing program and specifying report recipients; the measure received limited testimony and passed on the chairs' recommendation.
The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, sitting jointly with the Committee on Agriculture and Environment for part of the calendar, voted to pass SCR 33 / SR 19 with amendments that expand the resolution’s reporting language and specify recipients for the Tax Review Commission’s report on long‑term care financing.
Carolyn Katirao of the Executive Office on Aging testified in support and Melvin Sakurai also spoke in support. Committee members read additional written testimony into the record during the hearing.
Committee chairs recommended passing SCR 33 / SR 19 with amendments that add language to the report clause on page 2, line 3 to specify the findings to be included and to list report recipients as the Hawaii State Legislature, the Executive Office on Aging, and the Office of the Governor. The transcript includes a clause reading, as transcribed, a deadline or date noted as "July 19 91"; the hearing record does not clearly identify the intended date. The committee read the amended clause aloud during decision making.
On the vote, the chair and vice chair recorded affirmative votes; Senator Hashimoto and Senator Keohokalole also were recorded voting aye. Senator Fevella was listed as excused. The committee adopted the chairs’ recommendation and adjourned.
The adopted amendment asks the Tax Review Commission to identify possible means by which a Hawaii long‑term care financing program could be implemented and to report the findings to the listed recipients. The transcript does not include an explicit deadline that can be confirmed from the audio/text and does not record legislative or budgetary details about any proposed financing mechanisms; the resolution as amended requests identification of options, not implementation.
