Report Title:
Community Care Foster Family Homes; Maximum Occupancy; Increase
Description:
Increases the maximum occupancy of community care foster family homes from two adults to three.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
1822 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to community Care foster family homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-331, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "community care foster family home" to read as follows:
""Community care foster family home" or "home" means a home that, for the purposes of this part:
(1) Is regulated by the department in accordance with rules that are equitable in relation to rules that govern expanded adult residential care homes;
(2) Is issued a certificate of approval by the department or its designee to provide, for a fee, twenty-four-hour living accommodations, including personal care and homemaker services, for not more than [two] three adults at any one time, at least one of whom shall be a medicaid recipient, who are at the nursing facility level of care, who are unrelated to the foster family, and are receiving the services of a licensed home and community-based case management agency; and
(3) Does not include expanded adult residential care homes or assisted living facilities, which shall continue to be licensed by the department of health."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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