STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2491

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2874

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2874 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CERTIFIED NURSE AIDES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to delete statutory references to the Department of Human Services:

     (1)  Licensing or certifying health care settings; and

     (2)  Investigating and disciplining certified nurse aides employed in health care settings.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Department of Human Services.

     Your Committee finds that Act 93, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, consolidated the licensing and certifying of various health care settings under the Department of Health Office of Health Care Assurance, rather than the Departments of Health and Human Services.  Since the Department of Human Services no longer licenses or certifies programs related to home and community-based case management, community care foster family homes, and adult day care centers, statutory references to the Department performing these functions and disciplining certified nurse aides employed in these programs are obsolete.  Accordingly, this measure deletes these obsolete statutory provisions.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2874 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair