Bill Text: HI HB1208 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Human Services; Licensing and Certification Fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-15 - The committee on HTH deferred the measure. [HB1208 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1208-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  901

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1208

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1208, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE FEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to generate revenues for certain human services and health programs by moving to establish fees for licensing, certification, and certification renewal for certain programs by:

    

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Human Services to gather data and recommend reasonable fees for the certification and licensure of providers of home- and community-based case management, community care foster family home, and adult day care center services;

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Health to adopt the foregoing recommended fees after the transfer of programs; and

 

     (3)  Requiring the Director of Human Services to recommend fees for training and recertification of nurse aides.

 

     The Department of Health opposed this measure.  The Department of Human Services submitted comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing provisions requiring the Director of Human Services to recommend fees for nurse aides;

 

     (2)  Authorizing rather than mandating the Department of Health to adopt the fees as recommended by the Department of Human Services;

 

     (3)  Requiring the Department of Human Services to submit a report on its findings and recommendations on the assessment of fees to the Legislature no later than 20 days before the convening of the regular session of 2014; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1208, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1208, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair