Bill Text: HI HB724 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Foster Care; Monthly Maintenance Payments

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB724 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB724-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  234

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 724

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 724 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSTER CARE SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services (DHS) to amend its administrative rules to increase from $529 per month to an unspecified amount the monthly foster care maintenance payment to licensed foster family boarding homes, child-care institutions, and facilities that provide contracted emergency shelter or group home services for DHS, the Office of Youth Services, or Family Court.

 

     The Hawaii Youth Services Network testified in support of this bill.  DHS opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

 

     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. 724, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 724, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair