Bill Text: HI SB525 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating To Health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session. [SB525 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2020-SB525-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

525

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to health.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 321-1.9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  The department of health [shall] may conduct unannounced visits and inspections, including inspections for relicensing or recertification, for the following state-licensed or state-certified care facilities on an annual basis and at such intervals as determined by the department to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of each resident:

     (1)  Adult day health centers;

     (2)  Adult day care centers;

     (3)  Community care foster family homes;

     (4)  Developmental disabilities domiciliary homes;

     (5)  Adult foster homes;

     (6)  Long-term care facilities, including but not limited to:

          (A)  Adult residential care homes;

          (B)  Expanded adult residential care homes;

          (C)  Assisted living facilities;

          (D)  Intermediate care facilities;

          (E)  Nursing facilities; and

          (F)  Skilled nursing facilities; and

     (7)  Special treatment facilities."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2019.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Department of Health; Inspections; Care Facilities

 

Description:

Makes Department of Health unannounced inspections of care facilities discretionary rather than mandatory.

 

 

 

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