STAND. COM. REP. NO.  220-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2157

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2157 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXPANDED ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure adequate capacity for provision of long-term care to persons with nursing facility level care needs by increasing capacity limitations from two to three nursing facility level residents in Type I Expanded Adult Residential Care Homes.

     The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Health opposed this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 2157, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2157, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair