REPORT Title:
Home- and Community-Based Services
Description:
Increases the maximum occupancy of community care foster family homes from two adults to three. Removes the sunset date for the licensing of home and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes. (SB3254 HD1)
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THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
3254 |
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TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006 |
S.D. 2 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
H.D. 1 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES.
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. Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, as amended by Act 95 and Act 98, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003, as amended by Act 153, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, is amended by amending section 6 to read as follows:
"SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2001[, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2006]."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 2 shall take effect on June 29, 2006.