STAND. COM. REP. NO. 433-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2366

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2366 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INCREASING CAPACITY FOR HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide expanded services to individuals needing long-term care by:

(1) Increasing the maximum number of residents for type I homes from five to six;

(2) Increasing the number of residents who can reside in a community care foster family home from two to three;

(3) Mandating that at least two residents residing in community care foster family homes be Medicaid recipients; and

(4) Repealing the sunset date of June 30, 2006, to ensure that the quality of services and competency of service providers will continue.

 

The Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators testified in support of this bill. The Adult Foster Home Association of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure. The Kokua Council opposed this measure.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Eliminating the repeal of the sunset date to promote further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2366, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2366, 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,

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair