STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3705

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2216

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2216, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to increase the state supplemental payment limits for certain adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Disability and Communication Access Board; State Council on Developmental Disabilities; AARP Hawaii; Adult Foster Homecare Association of Hawaii; Alliance of Professional Primary Care Administrators; Coalition of Caregivers; Community Home Care Association; International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 1000; Sebastians Arch, LLC; United Community Healthcare of Hawaii; and numerous individuals.

Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Human Services.

Your Committee finds that increasing the state supplemental payment limits for types I and II adult residential care homes, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes will help to ensure that the actual costs incurred by care providers are adequately defrayed.

Your Committee has amended this measure by repealing outdated statutory language that initially established the dates by which the state supplemental payments were increased for residential care homes classified as either facility type I or II, licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes, community care foster family homes, and certified adult foster homes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2216, H.D. 2, S.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, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair