STAND. COM. REP. NO.  146-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2776

      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 Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2776 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIABILITY INSURANCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require operators of adult foster homes, adult residential care homes, assisted living facilities, expanded adult residential care homes, and community care foster family homes to obtain and maintain sufficient liability insurance.

Two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2776, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2776, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair