STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1580-06
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: S.B. No. 3247
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CARE HOMES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to ensure the continuation of care homes and the availability of care home facilities to Medicaid recipients by:
(1) Increasing the maximum capacity for adult family boarding homes, care homes, adult residential care homes, expanded adult residential care homes, and community care foster family homes;
(2) Requiring a certain number of beds to be reserved for Medicaid patients according to the type of care home; and
(3) Making permanent the home- and community-based case management agencies and community care foster family homes law.
The Department of Human Services, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Alliance of Residential Care Administrators, Adult Foster Home Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators, United Group of Home Operators, and numerous concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. The State Council on Development Disabilities did not support this measure. The Department of Health provided comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair |
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