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. 3244

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2776

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2776, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require operators of adult foster homes, adult residential care homes, assisted living facilities, and expanded adult residential care homes to obtain and maintain liability insurance.

 

The measure excepts operators of such homes and facilities that are operating under a contract with the Department of Health or the Department of Human Services and are in compliance with the liability insurance coverage requirements of the contract.

 

     Your Committee finds that requiring operators of adult foster homes, adult residential care homes, and assisted living facilities to obtain and maintain liability insurance protects not only the operators, but the residents of such homes and facilities as well, and is prudent, given the ever-increasing numbers of people that reside in these homes and facilities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Specifying that the Department of Health shall determine the liability insurance amount deemed sufficient; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2776, H.D. 2, S.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, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair