Bill Text: HI SB2031 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Certified Case Managers; Certification Required

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to CPN. [SB2031 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2031-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2069

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2031

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2031 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CASE MANAGERS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require certification of case managers by the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of the intent of the measure with amendments from The Queen's Medical Center, the National Association of Social Workers, Hawaii Chapter, and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Public Safety, Catholic Charities Hawaii, and one individual.  Your Committees received comments from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committees find that the measure as written is too vague and the intent of the measure is unclear.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by deleting the contents of the existing measure and replacing it with H.B. No. 2154, which convenes a temporary health care case management task force to research the quality of care provided by case managers and case management agencies and to ensure that standards of practice are consistently followed.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2031, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2031, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair