REPORT TITLE:
Adult Residential Care Homes


DESCRIPTION:
Encourages the continued operation of adult residential care
homes (ARCHs) by requiring the State to provide liability
insurance to operators during the term of their license.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.552        
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO ADULT RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1. The legislature finds that adult residential care
 
 2 home operators provide an invaluable service to the greater
 
 3 community.  They save taxpayers substantial sums of money that
 
 4 would otherwise be expended for the care of the elderly and
 
 5 disabled if they were to become wards of the State.  However,
 
 6 many operators are beset by the high costs of liability insurance
 
 7 that threatens their continued existence.
 
 8      The purpose of this Act is to encourage the continued
 
 9 operation of adult residential care homes by requiring the State
 
10 to provide liability insurance to operators during the term of
 
11 their license. 
 
12      SECTION 2.  Section 321-15.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
13 amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:
 
14      "(c)  The department [may]: 
 
15      (1)  May provide for the training of and consultations with
 
16           operators and staff of any facility licensed under this
 
17           section[,]; and
 
18      (2)  Shall provide liability insurance coverage to the
 
19           licensee, in conjunction with any licensing thereof[,
 
20           and shall]; and
 

 
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 1      (3)  Shall adopt rules to ensure that adult residential care
 
 2           home operators shall have the needed skills to provide
 
 3           proper care and supervision in a home environment as
 
 4           required under department rules."
 
 5      SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
 6 New statutory material is underscored.
 
 7      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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 9                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________