HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1116
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to care 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 hours in a calendar week, not to exceed five 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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015, and shall be repealed on July 1, 2016; provided that section 321-483(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which it read on the day before the effective date of this Act.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Community Care Foster Family Homes; Caregivers; Minimum Age; Continuing Education

 

Description:

Amends the minimum age and continuing education requirements for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community care foster family homes in the rules required to be adopted by the Department of Health.

 

 

 

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