Bill Text: HI HB1009 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Adult Foster Homes

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-28 - Referred to HUS, referral sheet 6 [HB1009 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1009-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1009

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013

 

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 321-11.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  The department of health is authorized to certify adult foster homes for developmentally disabled individuals requiring such care beyond the eighteenth birthday.  "Adult foster home" means a private home providing care on a twenty-four hour basis for adults with developmental disabilities.  To be certified, an adult foster home shall have not more than [two] three adults with developmental disabilities at the same time, who are unrelated to the foster family.  To accommodate residents of a foster boarding home for children with developmental disabilities who reach the age of eighteen years, where the home is certified as a foster boarding home for children under section 346-17, the director of health may waive the [two] three adult limit for certification of that home as an adult foster home[,]; provided that:  (1)  the number of foster children and adults in such dually certified home shall not exceed [five] six, and (2)  no new adults may be admitted into the home while there are any foster children residing in the home."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2013.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Adult Foster Homes

 

Description:

Allows adult foster homes to increase the number of patients from two to three.  Effective July 1, 2013.

 

 

 

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