Report Title:

Adult Residential Care Homes; Transfer to Dept of Human Services

Description:

Transfers licensing and regulation of adult residential care homes from the department of health to the department of human services. Effective 7/1/04. (SD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

237

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to government operations.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"Part . adult residential care homes

§346- Definitions. Whenever used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Adult residential care home" means any facility providing twenty-four-hour living accommodations, for a fee, to adults unrelated to the family, who require at least minimal assistance in the activities of daily living, personal care services, protection, and health care services, but who do not need the professional health services provided in an intermediate, skilled nursing, or acute care facility.

"Assisted living facility" means a combination of housing, health care services, and personalized supportive services designed to respond to individual needs, to promote choice, responsibility, independence, privacy, dignity, and individuality.

"Department" means the department of human services.

"Expanded adult residential care home" means any facility providing twenty-four-hour living accommodations, for a fee, to adults unrelated to the family, who require at least minimal assistance in the activities of daily living, personal care services, protection, and health care services, and who may need the professional health services provided in an intermediate or skilled nursing facility.

§346- Criminal history disclosure of prospective care home resident. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the department shall disclose to the operator of an adult residential care home, to the extent that the division or office of the department that is referring the individual to the care home possesses, the information in existing records at the time of, and as part of, the application for admission, the criminal history of a prospective resident applying for entry to the care home when the prospective resident had previously been:

(1) Convicted of an offense involving violence to a person; or

(2) Admitted to the state hospital under the jurisdiction of the department of health as a result of an acquittal under chapter 704 for an offense involving violence to a person.

§346- Adult residential care homes; licensing. (a) All adult residential care homes shall be licensed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals placed therein.

(b) The director shall adopt rules regarding adult residential care homes in accordance with chapter 91 which shall be designed to:

(1) Protect the health, safety, and civil rights of persons residing in facilities regulated;

(2) Provide for the licensing of adult residential care homes; provided that the rules shall allow group living in two categories of adult residential care homes as licensed by the department:

(A) Type I allowing group living by five or fewer unrelated persons; and

(B) Type II allowing six or more persons including but not limited to the mentally ill, elders, the handicapped, the developmentally disabled, or totally disabled persons who are not related to the home operator or facility staff.

For purposes of this section:

"Mentally ill person" means a mentally ill person as defined under section 334-1.

"Elder" means an elder as defined under sections 201G-1 and 201G-151.

"Handicapped person" means an individual with a physical handicap as defined under section 515-2.

"Developmentally disabled person" means a person with developmental disabilities as defined under section 333F-1.

"Totally disabled person" means a person totally disabled as defined under section 235-1;

(3) Comply with applicable federal laws and regulations of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, as amended; and

(4) Provide penalties for the failure to comply with any rule.

(c) The department may provide for the training of and consultations with operators and staff of any facility licensed under this section, in conjunction with any licensing thereof, and shall adopt rules to ensure that adult residential care home operators shall have the needed skills to provide proper care and supervision in a home environment as required under department rules.

(d) The department shall establish a standard admission policy and procedure which shall require the provision of information that includes the appropriate medical and personal history of the patient as well as the level of care needed by the patient prior to the patient's referral and admission to any adult residential care home facility. The department shall develop appropriate forms and patient summaries for this purpose.

(e) The department shall maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed under this section and shall maintain a current inventory of vacancies therein to facilitate the placement of individuals in such facilities.

(f) The department shall develop and adopt a social model of health care to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of individuals placed in adult residential care homes. The social model of care shall provide for aging in place and be designed to protect the health, safety, civil rights, and rights of choice of the persons to reside in a nursing facility or in home- or community-based care.

(g) Any fines collected by the department for violations of this section shall be deposited into the general fund.

§346- Adult residential care homes expanded admissions. (a) Adult residential care homes may admit an individual who has been living immediately prior to admission in the individual's own home, a hospital, or other care setting, and who has been either:

(1) Admitted to a medicaid waiver program and determined by the department of to require nursing facility level care to manage the individual's physical, mental, and social functions; or

(2) A private-paying individual certified by a physician or advanced practice registered nurse as needing a nursing facility level of care.

(b) The department shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to expand admissions to adult residential care homes by level of care and to define and standardize these levels of care. The rules and standards shall provide for appropriate and adequate requirements for knowledge and training of adult residential care home operators and their employees.

§346- Expanded adult residential care homes; licensing. (a) All expanded adult residential care homes shall be licensed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals placed therein.

(b) The director shall adopt rules regarding expanded adult residential care homes in accordance with chapter 91 which shall implement a social model of health care designed to:

(1) Protect the health, safety, civil rights, and rights of choice of the persons to reside in a nursing facility or in home- or community-based care;

(2) Provide for the licensing of expanded adult residential care homes for persons who are certified by the department, a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or registered nurse case manager as requiring skilled nursing facility level or intermediate care facility level of care who have no financial relationship with the home care operator or facility staff; provided that the rules shall allow group living in two categories of expanded adult residential care homes as licensed by the department:

(A) Type I home shall consist of five or less residents with no more than two nursing facility level residents; provided that more nursing facility level residents may be allowed at the discretion of the department; and

(B) Type II home shall consist of six or more residents, with no more than twenty per cent of the home's licensed capacity as nursing facility level residents; provided that more nursing facility level residents may be allowed at the discretion of the department;

provided further that the department shall exercise its discretion for a resident presently residing in a Type I or Type II home, to allow the resident to remain as an additional nursing facility level resident based upon the best interests of the resident. The best interests of the resident shall be determined by the department after consultation with the resident, the resident's family, primary physician, case manager, primary caregiver, and home operator;

(3) Comply with applicable federal laws and regulations of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, as amended; and

(4) Provide penalties for the failure to comply with any rule.

(c) The department may provide for the training of and consultations with operators and staff of any facility licensed under this section, in conjunction with any licensing thereof, and shall adopt rules to ensure that expanded adult residential care home operators shall have the needed skills to provide proper care and supervision in a home environment as required under department rules.

(d) The department shall establish a standard admission policy and procedure which shall require the provision of information that includes the appropriate medical and personal history of the patient as well as the level of care needed by the patient prior to the patient's referral and admission to any expanded adult residential care home facility. The department shall develop appropriate forms and patient summaries for this purpose.

(e) The department shall maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed under this section and shall maintain a current inventory of vacancies therein to facilitate the placement of individuals in such facilities.

§346- Penalty. Any person who intentionally operates an adult residential care home without a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

SECTION 2. Section 321-11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§321-11 Subjects of health rules, generally. The department pursuant to chapter 91 may adopt rules that it deems necessary for the public health and safety respecting:

(1) Nuisances, foul or noxious odors, gases, vapors, waters in which mosquitoes breed or may breed, sources of filth, and causes of sickness or disease, within the respective districts of the State, and on board any vessel;

(2) Adulteration and misbranding of food or drugs;

(3) Location, air space, ventilation, sanitation, drainage, sewage disposal, and other health conditions of buildings, courts, construction projects, excavations, pools, watercourses, areas, and alleys;

(4) Privy vaults and cesspools;

(5) Fish and fishing;

(6) Interments and dead bodies;

(7) Disinterments of dead human bodies, including the exposing, disturbing, or removing of these bodies from their place of burial, or the opening, removing, or disturbing after due interment of any receptacle, coffin, or container holding human remains or a dead human body or a part thereof and the issuance and terms of permits for the aforesaid disinterments of dead human bodies;

(8) Cemeteries and burying grounds;

(9) Laundries, and the laundering, sanitation, and sterilization of articles including linen and uniforms used by or in the following businesses and professions: barber shops, manicure shops, beauty parlors, electrology shops, restaurants, soda fountains, hotels, rooming and boarding houses, bakeries, butcher shops, public bathhouses, midwives, masseurs, and others in similar calling, public or private hospitals, and canneries and bottling works where foods or beverages are canned or bottled for public consumption or sale; provided that nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the prohibiting of laundering, sanitation, and sterilization by those conducting any of these businesses or professions where the laundering or sterilization is done in an efficient and sanitary manner;

(10) Hospitals, freestanding surgical outpatient facilities, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, [adult residential care homes,] adult foster homes, assisted living facilities, special treatment facilities and programs, home health agencies, hospices, freestanding birthing facilities, adult day health centers, independent group residences, and therapeutic living programs, but excluding youth shelter facilities unless clinical treatment of mental, emotional, or physical disease or handicap is a part of the routine program or constitutes the main purpose of the facility, as defined in section 346-16 under "child care institution". For the purpose of this paragraph, "adult foster home" has the same meaning as provided in section 321-11.2;

(11) Hotels, rooming houses, lodging houses, apartment houses, tenements, and residences for persons with developmental disabilities including, but not limited to, those built under federal funding;

(12) Laboratories;

(13) Any place or building where noisome or noxious trades or manufacturers are carried on, or intended to be carried on;

(14) Milk;

(15) Poisons and hazardous substances, the latter term including but not limited to any substance or mixture of substances which:

(A) Is corrosive;

(B) Is an irritant;

(C) Is a strong sensitizer;

(D) Is inflammable; or

(E) Generates pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means,

if the substance or mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children;

(16) Pig and duck ranches;

(17) Places of business, industry, employment, and commerce, and the processes, materials, tools, machinery, and methods of work done therein; and places of public gathering, recreation, or entertainment;

(18) Any restaurant, theater, market, stand, shop, store, factory, building, wagon, vehicle, or place where any food, drug, or cosmetic is manufactured, compounded, processed, extracted, prepared, stored, distributed, sold, offered for sale, or offered for human consumption or use;

(19) Foods, drugs, and cosmetics, and the manufacture, compounding, processing, extracting, preparing, storing, selling, and offering for sale, consumption, or use of any food, drug, or cosmetic;

(20) Devices as defined in section 328-1;

(21) Sources of ionizing radiation;

(22) Medical examination, vaccination, revaccination, and immunization of school children. No child shall be subjected to medical examination, vaccination, revaccination, or immunization, whose parent or guardian objects in writing thereto on grounds that the requirements are not in accordance with the religious tenets of an established church of which the parent or guardian is a member or adherent, but no objection shall be recognized when, in the opinion of the department, there is danger of an epidemic from any communicable disease;

(23) Disinsectization of aircraft entering or within the State as may be necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of disease or the introduction or spread of any insect or other vector of significance to health;

(24) Fumigation, including the process by which substances emit or liberate gases, fumes, or vapors which may be used for the destruction or control of insects, vermin, rodents, or other pests, which, in the opinion of the department, may be lethal, poisonous, noxious, or dangerous to human life;

(25) Ambulances and ambulance equipment;

(26) Development, review, approval, or disapproval of management plans submitted pursuant to the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986, Public Law 99-519; and

(27) Development, review, approval, or disapproval of an accreditation program for specially trained persons pursuant to the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550.

The department may require any certificates, permits, or licenses that it may deem necessary to adequately regulate the conditions or businesses referred to in this section."

SECTION 3. Section 321-15.7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§321-15.7 Penalty. Any person who intentionally operates [an adult residential care home or] a hospice home without a license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

SECTION 4. Section 321-15.1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by deleting the definitions of "adult residential care home", "assisted living facility", and "expanded adult residential care home".

[""Adult residential care home" means any facility providing twenty-four-hour living accommodations, for a fee, to adults unrelated to the family, who require at least minimal assistance in the activities of daily living, personal care services, protection, and health care services, but who do not need the professional health services provided in an intermediate, skilled nursing, or acute care facility.

"Assisted living facility" means a combination of housing, health care services, and personalized supportive services designed to respond to individual needs, to promote choice, responsibility, independence, privacy, dignity, and individuality.

"Expanded adult residential care home" means any facility providing twenty-four-hour living accommodations, for a fee, to adults unrelated to the family, who require at least minimal assistance in the activities of daily living, personal care services, protection, and health care services, and who may need the professional health services provided in an intermediate or skilled nursing facility."]

SECTION 5. Section 321-15.3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["[§321-15.3 Criminal history disclosure of prospective care home resident.] Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the department of health shall disclose to the operator of an adult residential care home, to the extent that the division or office of the department that is referring the individual to the care home possesses, the information in existing records at the time of, and as part of, the application for admission, the criminal history of a prospective resident applying for entry to the care home when the prospective resident had previously been:

(1) Convicted of an offense involving violence to a person; or

(2) Admitted to the state hospital under the jurisdiction of the department of health as a result of an acquittal under chapter 704 for an offense involving violence to a person."]

SECTION 6. Section 321-15.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["§321-15.6 Adult residential care homes; licensing. (a) All adult residential care homes shall be licensed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals placed therein.

(b) The director shall adopt rules regarding adult residential care homes in accordance with chapter 91 which shall be designed to:

(1) Protect the health, safety, and civil rights of persons residing in facilities regulated;

(2) Provide for the licensing of adult residential care homes; provided that the rules shall allow group living in two categories of adult residential care homes as licensed by the department of health:

(A) Type I allowing group living by five or fewer unrelated persons; and

(B) Type II allowing six or more persons including but not limited to the mentally ill, elders, the handicapped, the developmentally disabled, or totally disabled persons who are not related to the home operator or facility staff.

For purposes of this section:

"Mentally ill person" means a mentally ill person as defined under section 334-1.

"Elder" means an elder as defined under sections 201G-1 and 201G-151.

"Handicapped person" means an individual with a physical handicap as defined under section 515-2.

"Developmentally disabled person" means a person with developmental disabilities as defined under section 333F-1.

"Totally disabled person" means a person totally disabled as defined under section 235-1;

(3) Comply with applicable federal laws and regulations of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, as amended; and

(4) Provide penalties for the failure to comply with any rule.

(c) The department may provide for the training of and consultations with operators and staff of any facility licensed under this section, in conjunction with any licensing thereof, and shall adopt rules to ensure that adult residential care home operators shall have the needed skills to provide proper care and supervision in a home environment as required under department rules.

(d) The department shall establish a standard admission policy and procedure which shall require the provision of information that includes the appropriate medical and personal history of the patient as well as the level of care needed by the patient prior to the patient's referral and admission to any adult residential care home facility. The department shall develop appropriate forms and patient summaries for this purpose.

(e) The department shall maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed under this section and shall maintain a current inventory of vacancies therein to facilitate the placement of individuals in such facilities.

(f) The department shall develop and adopt a social model of health care to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of individuals placed in adult residential care homes. The social model of care shall provide for aging in place and be designed to protect the health, safety, civil rights, and rights of choice of the persons to reside in a nursing facility or in home- or community-based care.

(g) Any fines collected by the department for violations of this section shall be deposited into the general fund."]

SECTION 7. Section 321-15.61, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["[§321-15.61] Adult residential care homes expanded admissions. (a) Adult residential care homes may admit an individual who has been living immediately prior to admission in the individual's own home, a hospital, or other care setting, and who has been either:

(1) Admitted to a medicaid waiver program and determined by the department of human services to require nursing facility level care to manage the individual's physical, mental, and social functions; or

(2) A private-paying individual certified by a physician or advanced practice registered nurse as needing a nursing facility level of care.

(b) The department of health shall adopt rules in accordance with chapter 91 to expand admissions to adult residential care homes by level of care and to define and standardize these levels of care. The rules and standards shall provide for appropriate and adequate requirements for knowledge and training of adult residential care home operators and their employees."]

SECTION 8. Section 321-15.62, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["§321-15.62 Expanded adult residential care homes; licensing. (a) All expanded adult residential care homes shall be licensed to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the individuals placed therein.

(b) The director shall adopt rules regarding expanded adult residential care homes in accordance with chapter 91 which shall implement a social model of health care designed to:

(1) Protect the health, safety, civil rights, and rights of choice of the persons to reside in a nursing facility or in home- or community-based care;

(2) Provide for the licensing of expanded adult residential care homes for persons who are certified by the department of human services, a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or registered nurse case manager as requiring skilled nursing facility level or intermediate care facility level of care who have no financial relationship with the home care operator or facility staff; provided that the rules shall allow group living in two categories of expanded adult residential care homes as licensed by the department of health:

(A) Type I home shall consist of five or less residents with no more than two nursing facility level residents; provided that more nursing facility level residents may be allowed at the discretion of the department; and

(B) Type II home shall consist of six or more residents, with no more than twenty per cent of the home's licensed capacity as nursing facility level residents; provided that more nursing facility level residents may be allowed at the discretion of the department;

provided further that the department shall exercise its discretion for a resident presently residing in a Type I or Type II home, to allow the resident to remain as an additional nursing facility level resident based upon the best interests of the resident. The best interests of the resident shall be determined by the department after consultation with the resident, the resident's family, primary physician, case manager, primary caregiver, and home operator;

(3) Comply with applicable federal laws and regulations of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, as amended; and

(4) Provide penalties for the failure to comply with any rule.

(c) The department may provide for the training of and consultations with operators and staff of any facility licensed under this section, in conjunction with any licensing thereof, and shall adopt rules to ensure that expanded adult residential care home operators shall have the needed skills to provide proper care and supervision in a home environment as required under department rules.

(d) The department shall establish a standard admission policy and procedure which shall require the provision of information that includes the appropriate medical and personal history of the patient as well as the level of care needed by the patient prior to the patient's referral and admission to any expanded adult residential care home facility. The department shall develop appropriate forms and patient summaries for this purpose.

(e) The department shall maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed under this section and shall maintain a current inventory of vacancies therein to facilitate the placement of individuals in such facilities."]

SECTION 9. All rights, powers, functions, and duties of the department of health relating to adult residential care homes are transferred to the department of human services.

All officers and employees whose functions are transferred by this Act shall be transferred with their functions and shall continue to perform their regular duties upon their transfer, subject to the state personnel laws and this Act.

No officer or employee of the State having tenure shall suffer any loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefit or privilege as a consequence of this Act, and such officer or employee may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position without the necessity of examination; provided that the officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed; and provided that subsequent changes in status may be made pursuant to applicable civil service and compensation laws.

An officer or employee of the State who does not have tenure and who may be transferred or appointed to a civil service position as a consequence of this Act shall become a civil service employee without the loss of salary, seniority, prior service credit, vacation, sick leave, or other employee benefits or privileges and without the necessity of examination; provided that such officer or employee possesses the minimum qualifications for the position to which transferred or appointed.

If an office or position held by an officer or employee having tenure is abolished, the officer or employee shall not thereby be separated from public employment, but shall remain in the employment of the State with the same pay and classification and shall be transferred to some other office or position for which the officer or employee is eligible under the personnel laws of the State as determined by the head of the department or the governor.

SECTION 10. All appropriations, records, equipment, machines, files, supplies, contracts, books, papers, documents, maps, and other personal property heretofore made, used, acquired, or held by the department of health relating to the functions transferred to the department of human services shall be transferred with the functions to which they relate.

SECTION 11. All rules adopted by the department of health regulating adult residential care homes in effect on the day prior to the effective date of this Act, shall remain in full force and effect until such time that the department of human services adopts new rules regulating adult residential care homes.

SECTION 12. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 13. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2004.

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