Bill Text: HI SB1361 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community Care Foster Family Homes

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1361 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1361-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 480

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1361

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1361 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the definition of Community Care Foster Family Home to require that a Community Care Foster Family Home be certified and in operation for a minimum of one year prior to being certified for a third client.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Adult Foster Homecare Association of Hawaii, The Primary Care Providers, Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawai‘i, and seventeen individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that adding a third client who is at the nursing facility level of care places increased demands on caregivers at Community Care Foster Family Homes.  Your Committee further finds that requiring at least one year's experience of caring for two clients will provide the caregivers and the Department of Human Services the opportunity to determine whether caregivers of Community Care Foster Family Homes are able to adequately care for an additional adult without compromising quality of care to any of the clients.  Your Committee also finds that this increase in standard is necessary to ensure quality of care and client safety.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1361, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1361, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair