Report Title:
Adult Foster Homes; Capacity
Description:
Increases the maximum amount of adults with developmental disabilities that are allowed to reside in an adult foster care home from 2 to 3.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1792 |
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to adult foster care homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 321-11.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) The department of health is authorized to certify adult foster homes for developmentally disabled individuals requiring such care beyond the eighteenth birthday. "Adult foster home" means a private home providing care on a twenty-four hour basis for adults with developmental disabilities. To be certified, an adult foster home shall have not more than [two] three adults with developmental disabilities at the same time, who are unrelated to the foster family. To accommodate residents of a foster boarding home for children with developmental disabilities who reach the age of eighteen years, where the home is certified as a foster boarding home for children under section 346-17, the director of health may waive the [two] three adult limit for certification of that home as an adult foster home, provided that:
(1) [the] The number of foster children and adults in such dually certified home shall not exceed five[,]; and
(2) [no] No new adults may be admitted into the home while there are any foster children residing in the home."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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