STAND. COM. REP. NO.  130-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1693

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1693 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the State to pay a set interest rate on late payments to an operator of an adult day care facility, community care foster family home, or adult residential care home.

The United Group of Home Operators and a large number of concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Human Services opposed this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     Your Committee respectfully requests that should your Committee on Finance choose to consider this measure, the Department of Human Services be queried as to how much the Department has actually paid out in penalties at the current interest rate of 5.25 percent.

     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. 1693, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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MELE CARROLL, Chair