HI HR127

Director of the Executive Office on Aging is requested to establish a long-term care financing task force to study the feasibility of creating a modest, public, long-term care insurance program in Hawaii.

Task force composition includes the EOA Director as Chair, six individuals from the long-term care community and insurance industry (three selected by Senate President and three by House Speaker), one Senator, and one House member.

Task force must address 11 specific issues including enrollment eligibility age, employment definition, premium collection methods, benefit lengths and amounts, inflation adjustments, low-income subsidies, and program administration.

Task force members receive no compensation but are reimbursed for necessary expenses including travel costs.

Task force must submit findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2013 Regular Session convenes and is dissolved on June 30, 2013.