STAND. COM. REP. NO.  425

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1195

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1195 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXPANDED ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the capacity of expanded adult residential care homes in Hawaii by allowing Type I Expanded Adult Residential Care Homes to accept one additional nursing facility level resident.

The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators, Arzaga's Adult Foster Care, and several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health commented on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 1195, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1195, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Chair

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair