Report Title:

Human Services; Community Care Foster Family Home; Private Pay Clients

 

Description:

Allows a married couple, consisting of two private pay clients who meet certain conditions, to live in the same community care foster family home.  Sunsets 7/1/2011.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

190

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOME.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the definition of "community care foster family home" under section 346-331, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the department of human services may allow a married couple, consisting of two private pay clients, to be cared for in the same community care foster family home if:

     (1)  Each spouse is at least eighty years of age;

     (2)  The couple has been married to each other for at least forty years; and

     (3)  Each spouse otherwise meets all the other requirements for admission to the community care foster family home.

     SECTION 2.  The department of human services shall adopt interim rules exempt from the requirements of chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to carry out the purposes of this Act; provided that the interim rules shall be adopted no later than December 31, 2009, and shall be replaced by permanent rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, no later than July 1, 2010.

     SECTION 3.  It is the intent of this Act not to jeopardize the receipt of any federal aid.  If this Act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition for the allocation of federal funds to the State, this Act shall be deemed null and void.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009, and shall be repealed on July 1, 2011; provided that a spouse who was admitted into a community care foster family home under section 1 of this Act and who remains a client of the community care foster family home on the date of the repeal of this Act, shall be allowed to remain in the community care foster family home until death or otherwise removal of that spouse from the home, whichever comes first; provided that all other requirements for admission to the community care foster family home are met.

 

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