Bill Text: HI SB1360 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Community Care Foster Family Homes
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-04-25 - (S) Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-28-11 10:50AM in conference room 229. [SB1360 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-SB1360-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to community care foster family homes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-331, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "community care foster family home" to read as follows:
"Community care foster family home" or "home" means a home that, for the purposes of this part:
(1) Is regulated by the department in accordance with rules that are equitable in relation to rules that govern expanded adult residential care homes;
(2) Is issued a certificate of approval by the
department or its designee to provide, for a fee, twenty-four-hour living
accommodations, including personal care and homemaker services, for not more
than two adults at any one time, at least one of whom shall be a medicaid
recipient, who are at the nursing facility level of care, who are unrelated to
the foster family, and who are receiving the services of a licensed home and
community-based case management agency; provided that the department, in its
discretion, may certify a home for a third adult who is at the nursing level of
care and a medicaid recipient; provided that the primary [and substitute
caregivers are certified nurse aides who have] caregiver is a certified
nurse aide as defined in section 457A-1.5 who has completed a
state-approved training program and other training as required by the
department and the substitute caregiver is a nurse aide as defined in
section 457A-1.5; and
(3) Does not include expanded adult residential care homes or assisted living facilities, which shall continue to be licensed by the department of health."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Community Care Foster Family Homes
Description:
Amends previous caregiving requirements to specify that in Community Care Foster Family Homes approved for a maximum of three clients, the primary caregiver must be a certified nurse aide and the substitute caregiver must be a nurse aide.
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