STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2143

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2976
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and
Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2976
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require that nursing home
administrators satisfy continuing education requirements as a
condition of license renewal.

     The Hawaii Long Term Care Association submitted testimony in
support of the measure.  The Department of Commerce and Consumer
Affairs (DCCA) submitted testimony in opposition to the measure.

     Your Committees find that continuing education will help
nursing home administrators keep abreast of changes in federal
and state laws and regulations, treatment philosophies, and
technology, thereby enabling licensees to provide better
oversight of the care of our elderly and disabled in nursing home
facilities.  By establishing a continuing education requirement
for license renewal, Hawaii will join the majority of the states
that require continuing education for its nursing home
administrator licensees. 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by authorizing the
director of DCCA to coordinate, rather than contract the services
of a private entity to provide educational or testing services,

 
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and by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to reflect
preferred drafting style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Commerce and Consumer Protection and Health and
Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees
are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2976, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2976, S.D. 1, and be referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Commerce and
                                   Consumer Protection and Health
                                   and Human Services,



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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair        BRIAN KANNO, Co-Chair



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                                   BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair

 
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