STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1079
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 791
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 791, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A CONTINUUM OF HEALTH CARE SETTINGS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Allow the Department of Health (DOH) to license special treatment facilities and therapeutic living programs in residential settings;
(2) Provide that clean and sober homes are a permitted or conditional use in residential zones; and
(3) Repeal drug rehabilitation homes as a permitted residential use.
The Office of the Lieutenant Governor, DOH, Honolulu Police Department, and a concerned individual supported this bill.
DOH reported that there is a need to provide therapeutic and rehabilitative services in residential settings and ensure that housing is available for people recovering from substance abuse.
Your Committees have amended this bill by:
(1) Requiring counties to first hold a public informational meeting before allowing halfway houses or clean and sober houses to be established in a neighborhood;
(2) Eliminating the grandfather clause that allowed drug
rehabilitation homes established prior to the effective date of this Act to be exempt from the amendments of this bill;
(3) Changing the definition of "drug rehabilitation home" to one suggested by DOH;
(4) Excluding halfway houses and clean and sober homes from
falling under the definition of drug rehabilitation home;
(5) Amending section 46-4(f), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include the definitions of "clean and sober homes" and "drug rehabilitation home";
(6) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to
encourage further discussion; and
(7) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity,
consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 791, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 791, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,
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____________________________ ALEX M. SONSON, Chair |
____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
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