Bill Text: HI HB2131 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Medicaid Patient; Private-Pay Client; Community Care Foster Family Home
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-16 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and M. Lee, Souki excused (2). [HB2131 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2131-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 506-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2131
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2131 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
Your Committees have noted that the Department of Human Services testified that, to date, there have been no closures of community care foster family homes as a result of the home not having a Medicaid client in residence. The Department of Human Services testified that it will work with its designee, Community Ties of America, and stakeholders on developing better policy and communication so that community care foster family homes can remain open and continue to serve as an important community resource to meet the needs of Medicaid patients requiring community-based options to nursing facility care. The Department of Human Services also suggested that the amendment to section 346-332(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, may be more appropriately placed elsewhere, given that the statutory section is obsolete.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Reducing the mandatory age of a substitute caregiver to 18 years or older, from 21 years or older; and
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2131, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2131, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,
____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair |
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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