Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 505 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to increase level of care payments to adult residential care homes (ARCH).

The United Group of Home Operators, Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators, and Alliance of Residential Care Administrators testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services (DHS) provided comments.

Your Committees find that ARCH operators have not received an increase in level of care payments for approximately ten years. DHS expressed concern that raising level of care payments might jeopardize the State's Maintenance of Effort Agreement with the Social Security Administration, and offered an alternative suggestion.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 505, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 505, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.