STAND. COM. REP. NO.  868

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1195

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1195, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EXPANDED ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the capacity of Type I Expanded Adult Residential Care Homes by increasing the number of allowable nursing facility level residents to three from two residents.

 

     The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators and three concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Health offered comments.

 

     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. 1195, 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