HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	694
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 321-483, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

     "(b)  The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 relating to:

     (1)  Standards of conditions and competence for the operation of community care foster family homes[;] and any other community-based care home or facility licensed or certified under the department;

     (2)  Procedures for obtaining and renewing a certificate of approval from the department; provided that the department shall grant or deny:

(A) An application for an initial certificate of approval within      days after the department's receipt of the application; and

(B) An application to renew a certificate of approval within      days after the department's receipt of the application;

(3) Application fee for an initial certificate of approval and to renew a certificate of approval; provided that the application fee for an initial certificate of approval shall be $         and the fee to renew a certificate of approval shall be $        ;

    [(3)] (4)  Minimum grievance procedures for clients of community care foster family home services[;] and any other community-based care home or facility licensed or certified under the department;

    [(4)] (5)  Requirements for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community care foster family homes and any other community-based care home or facility licensed or certified under the department, including:

         (A)  Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers be twenty-one years of age or older;

         (B)  Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers complete a minimum of twelve hours of continuing education every twelve months or at least twenty-four hours of continuing education every twenty-four months;

         (C)  Allowing the primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home or other community-based care home or facility for no more than twenty-eight hours in a calendar week, not to exceed five hours per day; provided that the substitute caregiver is present in the community care foster family home or other community-based care home or facility during the primary caregiver's absence;

         (D)  Where the primary caregiver is absent from the community care foster family home or other community-based care home or facility in excess of the hours as prescribed in subparagraph (C), mandating that the substitute caregiver be a certified nurse aide; and

         (E)  Mandating that the substitute caregiver have, at a minimum, one year prior work experience as a caregiver in a community residential setting or in a medical facility."

     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:

Community-Based Care Homes or Facilities; Community Care Foster Family Homes; Department of Health; Licensing; Fees

Description:

Sets time limit for the grant or denial of an application for an initial or renewed certificate of approval to operate a community care foster family home or any community-based care home or facility licensed or certified under the Department of Health.  Authorizes an application fee and sets fee amounts.

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