Report Title:

ARCH; Notice of Licensing Application; Hearing

Description:

Requires a type II adult residential care home in a residential area applying for a license to give notice of its application.  Requires applicant to notify DOH if also applying for county permits. Requires DOH to hold a hearing in the district where the proposed home is to be located and invite county attendance.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2433
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to adult residential care homes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§321-   Type II adult residential care homes; license application; notice to public; informational hearing; notice to county. (a)  Upon submitting an application for a license, each facility proposing to operate as a type II adult residential care home in a residential area shall publish notice of its application for a license in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the facility is proposed to be located.

(b)  The department shall hold an informational hearing regarding the license application in the district, as defined in section 4-1, in which the proposed facility is to be located.

(c)  If the proposed facility is also concurrently applying for a county permit for the proposed facility, the applicant for a license shall notify the department of its county permit application.  The department shall then notify the relevant county of the date and venue of the department's informational hearing and invite the county's attendance at the hearing."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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