STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2463

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 545

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 545 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the law relating to Human Services.

Prior to the hearing on this measure, your Committee posted and made available for public review a proposed S.D. 1, which amends this measure by deleting its contents and replacing it with language to:

(1) Amend the definition of "community care foster family home" to allow one additional Medicaid individual to be cared for in the same community care foster family home; and

(2) Require the Department of Health to submit a report to the Legislature before the Regular Session of 2025.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the proposed S.D. 1.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 545, as amended herein, and recommends that it be recommitted to your Committee on Health and Human Services, in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 545, S.D. 1, for further consideration.

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

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JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair