STAND. COM. REP. NO. 231

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1247

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1247 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist adult residential care home operators, including expanded adult residential care home and community care foster family home operators, with the high costs of insurance related to caring for their clients.

The Legislative Center and United Group of Home Operators supported this bill. The Department of Health and Department of Human Services opposed the measure.

Your Committees find that the issue of long-term care has become an increasingly pressing challenge. This bill attempts to address the needs of our aging population and those in need of assisted living care; therefore, your Committees recommend that further discussion continue on this bill.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1247 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair