CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 145

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2013

 

RE:    H.B. No. 120

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir and Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 120, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this measure is to enhance public access to information collected by the Department of Health regarding its inspections of state-licensed care facilities by, among other things:

 

(1)  Requiring the Department of Health to post on its website electronic copies of reports for all inspections it performs of state-licensed facilities specified in the measure;

 

(2)  Establishing a Working Group on Licensed Care Facilities to develop an inspection form to be posted online with information that is fair to the care home operators and useful to the public;

 

(3)  Requiring the Working Group to report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature prior to the 2014 Regular Session; and

 

(4)  Appropriating unspecified amounts for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium to fund equipment, website and database development, and staff support.

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Clarifying that the representatives from major caregiver provider groups that may be invited by the Director of Health to participate in the Working Group must be representatives of specified types of state-licensed care facilities;

 

(2)  Inserting the appropriation amount of $74,000 for each year of the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium to fund computer equipment, website and database development, and staff support;

 

(3)  Specifying that the appropriation includes funding for two full-time equivalent positions (2.0 FTE);

 

(4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2013; and

 

(5)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 120, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 120, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Co-Chair

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JOSH GREEN, Co-Chair

 

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MELE CARROLL, Co-Chair

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WILL ESPERO, Co-Chair

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Co-Chair

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Co-Chair