STAND. COM. REP. 2744

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2930

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2930, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make certain administrative amendments to the home and community-based care licensing law.

Specifically, this bill:

(1) Extends the statutory authority for licensing home and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes;

(2) Makes the Department of Human Services or its designee responsible for certifying any community care foster family home; and

(3) Requires adult protective services perpetrator checks as a requirement for certification.

Your Committee amended this measure by changing the amounts appropriated in sections 4 and 5 to unspecified amounts to facilitate further discussion on this measure and by changing the effective date of the measure from June 29, 2004 to June 29, 2030 and the effective dates for sections 1, 4, and 5 to undetermined future dates. Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarification.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2930, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2930, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair