STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1626-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2126

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2126, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to consolidate the authority, duties, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the Department of Human Services and Department of Health as they relate to various health care services by transferring to the Office of Health Care Assurance of the Department of Health, the programs of the Department of Human Services relating to:

     (1)  Home and community-based case management and community care foster family homes; and

     (2)  Adult day care.

The Department of Human Services, Hawaii Alliance for Retired Americans, and United Self Help testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that the adult abuse perpetrator checks conducted determine whether an adult abuse perpetrator is known to the Department of Human Services;

     (2)  Clarifying that the adult abuse perpetrator checks that are conducted relate to a search for the individual's name and birth date in the Department of Human Services' adult protective service file;

     (3)  Amending the definition of "day care center" by specifying that it include a family home providing care for two or more adults, rather than two or three adults, to make the statute uniform with county zoning laws that permit a family home licensed as a day care center to provide care up to a specified number of individuals; and

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2014.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2126, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2126, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair