Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend and fund the demonstration projects that license home and community-based case management agencies.

Your Committee finds that Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, authorized the Department of Human Services to license home and community-based case management agencies. These agencies, in turn, are authorized to certify community care foster family homes. By extending and funding the demonstration projects under Act 273, this bill ensures that the health, safety, and welfare of individuals placed in certified community care foster family homes will be maintained.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.