STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1299

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 51

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 51, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOME CARE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the safety of the frail and elderly who are consumers of home care agency services by requiring the Department of Health (DOH) to license and monitor home care agencies.

 

     DOH and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by inserting an appropriation of $107,000 for one full time equivalent position within DOH to assist in the licensing and monitoring of home care agencies.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 51, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 51, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services & Housing,

 

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair