STAND. COM. REP. NO.  701-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1693

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to incentivize timely payments to care home facilities operators by requiring the State to pay a set interest rate on late payments by the State to operators of adult day care facilities, community care foster family homes, and adult residential care homes.

 

     The United Group of Home Operators; Caregivers Association; Alliance of Residential Care Administrators; Big Island Adult Foster Home Operators; and two concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services testified in opposition to this measure.  Easter Seals Hawaii commented on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair