Bill Text: HI HB736 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Community Care Foster Family Homes

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB736 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB736-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  235

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 736

      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. 736 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of "community care foster family home" to include the requirement that a community care foster family home be in operation for not less than one year prior to being certified for a third client.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Adult Foster Homecare Association of Hawaii, and Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by 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. 736, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 736, 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