STAND. COM. REP. NO. 985-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2216

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2216, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CARE HOMES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the cap on state supplemental payments for type l adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, certified adult foster homes, and type II adult residential care homes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services; State Council on Developmental Disabilities; Community Home Care Association of Hawaii; Adult Foster Homecare Association of Hawaii; United Community Healthcare of Hawaii; Alliance of Professional Primary Care; Association of Care Administrators; The Primary Care Provider; AARP Hawaiʻi; Hawaiʻi Friends of Civil Rights; and five individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the caps on state supplemental payments for the various care facilities to unspecified amounts; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2216, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2216, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair