STAND. COM. REP. 829
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: H.B. No. 907
H.D. 2
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 H.B. No. 907, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Extend the sunset date of Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, to June 30, 2005, to provide for continued certification of community care foster family homes by home- and community-based case management agencies licensed by the Department of Human Services (DHS); and
(2) Require DHS to submit a report to the Legislature detailing:
(A) The cost-effectiveness and administration of the certification process of community care foster family homes; and
(B) The possibility of integrating or consolidating the classification of community care foster family homes with adult residential care homes.
DHS supported this bill. Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators and seven concerned citizens opposed this bill.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010 to further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.
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. 907, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 907, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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