STAND. COM. REP. NO. 788-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2511
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Finance,
to which was referred H.B. No. 2511 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE,"

beg leaves to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to give the Department of Human
Services (DHS) more flexibility in providing a continuum of
services for eligible, disabled individuals by allowing DHS to
employ civil service and non-civil service personnel to staff its
Medicaid waiver programs.

     The DHS and the Advisory Committee for the Adult and
Community Care Services Branch of the DHS testified in support of
this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by leaving the
effective date blank to promote further discussion.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Finance that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2511, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 2511, H.D. 1.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and Public
                                   Employment and Finance,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair          TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair