STAND. COM. REP. NO.  233-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2571

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2571 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTION FOR DOMESTIC SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL AND INTELLECUTAL DISABILITIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help increase access to home- and community-based services by extending the exemption for domestic in-home and community-based services for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities from the laws relating to unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and the Prepaid Health Care Act when the services are provided through state-funded medical assistance to individuals who are ineligible for Medicaid.

The Department of Health, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and a concerned individual supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstative amendments for clarity, consistency, and style, including correcting a typographical error in the measure's title.

     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 H.B. No. 2571, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2571, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair