STAND. COM. REP. 2400

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2930

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2930 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make the following administrative amendments:

(1) Extend statutory authority for licensing home and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes;

(2) Make the Department of Human Services or its designee responsible for certifying any community care foster family home; and

(3) Requires adult protective services perpetrator checks as a requirement for certification.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Human Services and a member of the Policy Advisory Board on Elder Affairs.

Your Committees find that the Department of Human Services licenses home and community-based case management agencies and certifies community care foster family homes. Through this process, the department is able to ensure service quality and competency and is able to maintain oversight of the facilities. Furthermore, including adult protective service checks will establish a practice that is already being carried out to ensure the health and safety of individuals utilizing these facilities.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made to conform to legislative drafting style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2930, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2930, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair