Report Title:

Residential Care Homes; Amount of Assistance

Description:

Alters the maximum rate of payment of domiciliary care provided to recipients eligible for Federal Supplementary Security Income or public assistance. Appropriates funds to the department of human services.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1336

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 346-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) The director, pursuant to chapter 91, shall determine the rate of payment for domiciliary care provided to recipients eligible either for Federal Supplementary Security Income, or public assistance in accordance with state standards, or both. The director shall provide for level of care payment as follows:

(1) For those adult residential care homes classified as facility type I, the state supplemental payment shall not exceed [$521.90;] $          ; and

(2) For those adult residential care homes classified as facility type II, the state supplementary payment shall not exceed [$629.90.] $          .

If the operator does not provide the quality of care consistent with the needs of the individual to the satisfaction of the department, the department may remove the recipient to another facility.

The department shall handle abusive practices under this section in accordance with chapter 91.

Nothing in this subsection allows the director to remove a recipient from an adult residential care home or other similar institution if the recipient does not desire to be removed and the operator is agreeable to the recipient remaining, except where the recipient requires a higher level of care than provided, or where the recipient no longer requires any domiciliary care."

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006, for a modification in the level of state supplemental payments for adults in residential care homes.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2005.

INTRODUCED BY:

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