STAND. COM. REP. NO.  655-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   H.B. No. 3130

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 3130 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage the upgrade of certain care home facilities by requiring the Department of Human Services (DHS) to establish a grant program to offer grants of up to $25,000 for home upgrades to operators of community care foster family homes.

 

     DHS and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Expanding its scope to include improving general safety or accommodating a third client, rather than making improvements specifically for fire safety; and

 

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

 


     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3130, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3130, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

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JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

 

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MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair