STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1028
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 1195
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 1195, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXPANDED ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the capacity from two to three nursing facility level residents in type I expanded adult residential care homes.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from thirty-three individuals. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Health.
Your Committees find that our State is facing a long-term care crisis because there are not enough long-term care facilities to meet the State's healthcare needs. The shortage of long-term care facilities is negatively affecting acute care facilities because patients must often remain in acute care while waiting for an opening in a long-term care facility. This causes great and unnecessary expense to acute care hospitals, patients, and insurance providers and needlessly occupies beds needed for acute care patients.
Your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2015.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1195, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1195, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing,
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
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____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair |
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