Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support community-based nursing care facilities in the State by extending the statutory authority for the licensing of home and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes. This bill extends the repeal date of Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, from June 30, 2003, to June 30, 2005.

The Department of Human Services, Case Management Professionals, Inc., Case Management Council, and Case Management Inc., testified in support of this bill. The Queen's Medical Center supported the intent of this measure, and the County of Hawaii Office of the Mayor offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the repeal date to June 30, 2004; and

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 S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.