STAND. COM. REP. NO.  338

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 157

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 157 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate greater access to information on the quality and conditions of care facilities in Hawaii by requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Human Services to post on their respective websites information collected from the departments' inspections of care facilities.

     Best Buddies Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and St. Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services and the Executive Office on Aging opposed this bill.  Healthcare Association of Hawaii submitted comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050.

     Your Committees voiced concerns regarding this bill, and recommend the amended effective date not be changed in subsequent committees, in order to facilitate further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 157, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 157, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair