STAND. COM. REP. NO.  474-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2131

      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 Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2131 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is assure the health and safety of adult residential care homes and community care foster family homes by establishing requirements in statute that require:

(1)  The Department of Health (DOH) to provide a licensee of such a facility with a list of deficiencies found pursuant to a DOH visit or inspection of the licensee's facility and operations;

(2)  A licensee to return, within 30 working days of receiving a list of deficiencies, a written corrective action plan to DOH to address the deficiencies; and

(3)  DOH to approve or revise any corrective action plan within 30 working days of receiving the plan.

The United Group of Home Operators and several individuals supported this measure.  DOH opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Specifying that DOH has 60 working days from receipt of a corrective action plan to provide a response to the licensee;

(2)  Deleting the provision requiring DOH to approve or revise a corrective action plan within 30 working days of receiving the plan;

(3)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

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

     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 H.B. No. 2131, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2131, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair