STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1199

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 127

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Clarify that the plans of care for persons in licensed developmental disabilities domiciliary homes who are developmentally disabled, be for "support" and not "training"; and

(2) Require the Department of Health (DOH) to determine the rate of payment for these services.

The Disability and Communication Access Board supported this bill. Although the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Arc of Kauai, and the Arc in Hawaii supported this bill, they recommended that the bill be amended by inserting the contents from House Bill No. 1177. DOH supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Human Services provided comments.

Your Committees concur on the need to focus on the issue of allowing a person with developmental disabilities to choose where that person wants to live.

Accordingly, your Committees have amended this bill by deleting the contents and inserting contents of H.B. No. 1177.

As amended this bill requires that community residential alternatives for persons with developmental disabilities or mental retardation be in a setting of the person's choice, with consideration and recognition also given to the person's safety and well-being.

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 S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 127, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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