STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3066

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1693

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, 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 establish a set interest rate that the State and counties are required to pay on late payments to an operator of an adult day care facility, community care foster family home, or adult residential care home.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Adult Foster Homes of the Pacific, Big Island Adult Foster Home Operators, United Group of Home Operators, and two individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Human Services and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that many operators of in-home care facilities rely on the State to provide on-time payment for the goods and services provided.  Your Committee further finds that late payments can result in great financial hardship for care home operators, jeopardize the survival of the care home business, and compromise the quality and stability of patient care.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1693, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair