Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 632, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish a statutory framework for the licensure of home and community-based case management agencies.

The Attorney General, Queen's Medical Center, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Catholic Charities Elderly Services, Residential Choices, Inc., Case Management, Inc., Coalition for Affordable Long Term Care, Hale Makua, Nightingale Case Management, Inc., and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Human Services (DHS) submitted testimony in support of this bill with proposed amendments. Maui Youth and Family Services, Inc. submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by specifying that in conjunction with investigations conducted by DHS:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 632, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 632, H.D. 3.