Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3247, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the state supplemental payment for adult residential care providers.

Specifically, this bill clarifies that the Director of Human Services shall determine the rate of payment for domiciliary care, including developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, developmental disabilities adult foster homes, community care foster family homes, and developmental disabilities apartment complexes. This bill also increases the state supplemental payment from $521.90 to $621.90 for developmental disabilities apartment complexes and community care foster family homes in addition to type I adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, and adult foster homes. The state supplemental payment is also increased for type II adult residential care homes from $629.90 to $729.90. Finally, this bill requires the Department of Human Services to authorize payments for residents receiving Supplemental Security Income in type I and II adult residential care homes when appropriated state funds in a specific fiscal year are not fully expended on a timely basis to meet the Department's maintenance of effort agreement with the Social Security Administration, and allows the Department to determine the rate of payment to ensure compliance.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill by changing the increased state supplemental payments from $621.90 and $729.90 to unspecified amounts in order to facilitate further discussion. Your Committee has also made technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3247, S.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.