Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2329 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to mandate the ongoing regulation of Community Care Family Foster Homes (CCFFH) and Home- and Community-based Case Management Agencies (HCCMA) by repealing the sunset date, and to increase the number of medicaid clients that a community care family foster home may serve and the number of clients a Type I EARCH may serve.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators, The Primary Care Providers of Hawaii, Case Management Council, Ramiro-Anderson & Talavera, Case Management Professionals, Inc., and the United Group of Home Operators. Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure, but that also expressed concerns, from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs and two individuals.

Your Committees find that regulating the CCFFH and HCCMA is necessary to ensure quality health care services and continued competency of service providers.

Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting everything but the repeal of the sunset date.

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. 2329, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2329, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.