Bill Text: HI SB2138 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Medicaid Patient; Private-Pay Client; Community Care Foster Family Home

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-02 - (S) The committee on HMS deferred the measure. [SB2138 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2138-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2138

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 346-332, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  Community care foster family homes shall be required to reserve at least one bed for medicaid patients[.]; provided that if:

     (1)  A medicaid patient, who is the only medicaid patient residing in the community care foster family home, departs; and

     (2) There is only one remaining private-pay client in the community care foster family home and a physician who is licensed to practice under chapter 453 has certified to the department in a timely manner that the removal of that private-pay client from the community care foster family home may cause that client to sustain transfer trauma,

then the department may not, for a period of at least six months following the medicaid patient's departure, and on account of the medicaid patient's departure, suspend or revoke the certificate of approval issued to the community care foster family home under section 346-334."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Medicaid Patient; Private-Pay Client; Community Care Foster Family Home

 

Description:

Allows a community care foster family home to remain open for at least another six months upon losing its only medicaid patient, if a physician, licensed in the State, certifies that removal of the remaining private-pay client may result in transfer trauma to the remaining private-pay client.

 

 

 

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