Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1402 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make the home- and community-based case management agencies and community care foster family homes demonstration project established under Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, permanent.

Catholic Charities Elderly Services, Case Management Council, Quality Case Management, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services and the Queen's Medical Center supported this measure with amendments.

The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators, Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators, and several concerned individuals opposed this measure. A concerned individual submitted comments.

Your Committees find that community care foster family homes care for only 1-2 clients, allowing clients ample care and attention from caregivers. Additionally, the demonstration project provides many safeguards to ensure quality care, including the requirement for certificates of approval by case management agencies.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1402, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1402, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.