Bill Text: HI HB2776 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Care Home Operators; Liability Insurance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 266, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1369). [HB2776 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2776-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  803-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2776

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2776, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIABILITY INSURANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require operators of adult foster homes, adult residential care homes, assisted living facilities, expanded adult residential care homes, and community care foster family homes to obtain and maintain sufficient liability insurance coverage to operate their facilities.

 

     An individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Health and the Department of Human Services testified in opposition to this measure.  An individual commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Exempting operators operating under a contract with the Department of Health or the Department of Human Services who are in compliance with the liability insurance coverage requirements under the contract;

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to January 1, 2059, to facilitate continued discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2776, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2776, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair