Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3219 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed or certified under their jurisdiction and the vacancies therein to facilitate the placement of individuals in community-based facilities.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Health, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Education, the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, the Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and the Waikiki Health Center.

Your Committees find that there is not a complete inventory of all of the community-based care facilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health and Department of Human Services respectively. This lack of information makes locating information about vacancies in community-based facilities a time consuming, labor-intensive process.

Your Committees have amended this measure by adding "developmental disabilities domiciliary homes" to the list of facilities to be included in the inventory maintained by the two departments.

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 S.B. No. 3219, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3219, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.