STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2198

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2833

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2833 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 and intent of this measure is to exempt recipients of state-funded home and community-based services from having to provide unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, temporary disability insurance, and pre-paid health care.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Health, the Consumer Family and Youth Alliance, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that this exemption will allow more flexibility for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities to better access needed services.

     Your Committee notes that the title of this measure as introduced contains a misspelled word that is intended to mean an employment exemption for domestic services for persons with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2833 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

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

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair