Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

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. 3254, S.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make permanent the home- and community-based case management agencies and community care foster family homes law.

The Department of Human Services, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and Adult Foster Home Association of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees have amended this bill by expanding the capacity of community care foster family homes from two to three adults.

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. 3254, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3254, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.