STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1523

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 505

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 505, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide additional compensation to adult residential care home operators caring for recipients eligible for either federal Supplemental Security Income or state public assistance, or both.

The bill authorizes the Director of Human Services to determine the rate of the additional payment. Furthermore, the bill appropriates $10 for fiscal year 2005-2006, and the same sum for fiscal year 2006-2007, to fund the additional payments. The effective date of this bill is July 1, 2020.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has replaced the statutorily specified level of care supplemental payments for type I and type II adult residential care homes, consisting of $521.90 and $629.90, respectively, to unspecified amounts for the purposes of stimulating further discussion. In addition, your Committee has deleted the authorization for the Director of Human Services to determine any additional payments. Finally, your Committee has changed the appropriated amounts from $10 to $1 for purposes of stimulating further discussion.

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 H.B. No. 505, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 505, H.D. 1, 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