STAND. COM. REP. NO. 757-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2455 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to, among other things:
(1) Extend the life of the statutory authority for the licensing of home and community-based management agencies and community care foster family homes from 2004 to 2006;
(2) Create a single demonstration project applicable statewide;
(3) Allow the Department of Human Services (DHS) to delegate the responsibility of certifying community care foster family homes to separate certification of these homes from licensing of home and community-based case management agencies;
(4) Authorize DHS to obtain adult protective services background checks in addition to criminal history record checks on operators and employees of home and community-based case management agencies and community care foster family homes; and
(5) Appropriate funds.
DHS submitted testimony in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 2455, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2455, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
|
____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
||