Report Title:

Health; Developmental Disabilities

 

Description:

Appropriates moneys to fund operations of developmental disabilities domiciliary homes and apartment complexes for persons with developmental disabilities.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

208

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to developmental disabilities.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Developmental disabilities residential services providers perform a vital service to the State by providing important residential services to persons with developmental disabilities or mental retardation.

     The legislature enacted Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, authorizing the department of health to make additional payments for residential services to the providers of developmental disabilities domiciliary homes and operators of developmental disabilities apartment complexes.

     Act 236, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, appropriated $485,000 of the $1,600,000 of the requested appropriation for fiscal year 2005-2006 to implement Act 168.  The amount appropriated was not sufficient to meet the costs of operating the residential settings on behalf of the State.  The amount of the requested appropriation for fiscal year 2006-2007 was $1,798,200.  Act 261, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, appropriated $1,200,000 for fiscal year 2006-2007 to provide for the continued operation of developmental disabilities domiciliary homes and apartment complexes.  Consequently, that amount remains insufficient to continue operation of the residential services. 

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate the necessary funds in addition to the $1,200,000 submitted in the department of health's biennium budget request for the continued maintenance and operation of developmental disabilities domiciliary homes and apartment complexes for persons with developmental disabilities.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $600,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009, for continued operation of developmental disabilities domiciliary homes and apartment complexes for persons with developmental disabilities.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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