HB2020 HSCR195-02

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.195-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2020

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2020 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist those in adult residential care homes (ARCHs) by:

(1) Requiring the Department of Health to develop and adopt a social model of health care that would provide for aging in place; and

(2) Allowing Type I homes, with five or fewer residents with no more than two nursing facility level residents, to take in more nursing facility residents at the discretion of the Department of Health (DOH).

The United Group of Home Operators and Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators testified in support of this measure. DOH and Healthcare Association of Hawaii opposed this measure.

Your Committees find that this bill will enable ARCHs to accommodate more nursing facility level residents without having to create a new program or facility.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your

Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are

attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the

intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2020 and recommend that it pass

Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

____________________________ MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair		____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair