STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 885-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2930

S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2930, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to, among other things:

(1) Extend 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 the process of certifying these homes from the 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, Kokua Council, and the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs testified in support of this measure.

Your Committees find that home- and community-based case management agencies and community care foster family homes have been invaluable in providing care to individuals, and have been cost-effective care alternatives to institutional long-term care.

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 S.B. No. 2930, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health,

____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair		____________________________ MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair