Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 906 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish Type IA adult residential care homes in which no more than two residents require nursing facility levels of care. The Department of Health (DOH) has the discretion to allow more than two nursing facility level of care patients.

The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators, Hawaii Coalition for Care Home Operators, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. The United Group of Home Operators and Hawaii Disability Rights Center supported the intent of this measure. The Hawaii Long Term Care Association, Kokua Council, AARP, Filipino Nurses' Organization of Hawaii, and a concerned individual opposed this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 906, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 906, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.