HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2692
THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to Community Care foster family homes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 321-483, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 relating to:

(1) Standards of conditions and competence for the operation of community care foster family homes;

(2) Procedures for obtaining and renewing a certificate of approval from the department;

(3) Minimum grievance procedures for clients of community care foster family home services; and

(4) Requirements for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community care foster family homes including:

(A) Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers be twenty-one years of age or older;

(B) Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers complete a minimum of twelve hours of continuing education every twelve months or at least twenty-four hours of continuing education every twenty-four months;

(C) Allowing the primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home for no more than [twenty-eight] fifty hours in a calendar week, not to exceed [five] twenty-three hours per day; provided that the substitute caregiver is present in the community care foster family home during the primary caregiver's absence;

(D) Where the primary caregiver is absent from the community care foster family home in excess of the hours as prescribed in subparagraph (C), mandating that the substitute caregiver be a certified nurse aide; and

(E) Mandating that the substitute caregiver have, at a minimum, one year prior work experience as a caregiver in a community residential setting or in a medical facility."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Community Care Foster Family Home; Caregivers; Hours

Description:

Increases the number of hours the primary caregiver may be absent from a community care foster family home; provided that a substitute caregiver is present.

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