HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2692

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to Community Care foster family homes.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 321-483, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 relating to:

     (1)  Standards of conditions and competence for the operation of community care foster family homes;

     (2)  Procedures for obtaining and renewing a certificate of approval from the department;

     (3)  Minimum grievance procedures for clients of community care foster family home services; and

     (4)  Requirements for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community care foster family homes including:

          (A)  Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers be twenty-one years of age or older;

          (B)  Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers complete a minimum of twelve hours of continuing education every twelve months or at least twenty-four hours of continuing education every twenty-four months;

          (C)  Allowing the primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home for no more than [twenty-eight] fifty hours in a calendar week, not to exceed [five] twenty-three hours per day; provided that the substitute caregiver is present in the community care foster family home during the primary caregiver's absence;

          (D)  Where the primary caregiver is absent from the community care foster family home in excess of the hours as prescribed in subparagraph (C), mandating that the substitute caregiver be a certified nurse aide; and

          (E)  Mandating that the substitute caregiver have, at a minimum, one year prior work experience as a caregiver in a community residential setting or in a medical facility."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Community Care Foster Family Home; Caregivers; Hours

 

Description:

Increases the number of hours the primary caregiver may be absent from a community care foster family home; provided that a substitute caregiver is present.

 

 

 

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