Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 3254 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to extend the statutory authority for the licensing of home- and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes from June 30, 2006 to June 30, 2008.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services, the Adult Foster Home Association of Hawaii, and the Case Management Council.

Your Committee finds that requiring the licensing of case management agencies in the long-term care industry and the certification of community care foster homes is vital to ensure that people using their services receive high quality care at a low cost. Your Committee further finds that the need for regulatory oversight will continue beyond the proposed sunset date of June 30, 2008.

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by removing the sunset date in Act 273, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3254, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3254, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.