Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2605 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the current state level of care supplemental payments for adult residential care homes.

Specifically, this bill amends section 346-53(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to provide for unspecified dollar amounts in place of the current $521.90 and $629.90 payment amounts for type I and type II adult residential care homes, respectively.

Your Committee finds that higher levels of payments may be needed to encourage more extensive use of the most affordable method of accommodating elderly living arrangements. Accordingly, your Committee has left the dollar amounts unspecified to facilitate further discussion.

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. 2605 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.