Bill Text: HI HB2130 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Late Payments; Adult Day Care Facility; Community Care Foster Family Home; Adult Residential Care Home

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-01 - (H) The committee(s) on FIN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2130 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2130-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  411-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2130

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2130 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to set the rate of interest that the State is 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.

 

     The Adult Foster Homecare Association of Hawaii and several concerned individuals supported the measure.  The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators supported the intent of the measure.  The Department of Human Services opposed the measure.

 

     Your Committees have found that some care home operators have little cash reserves and rely on the State to pay them on time for goods and services provided.  Care home operators testified they incurred late mortgage penalty fees when the State was delinquent in paying the operators for goods and services.

 

     Your Committees note that the president of the Alliance of Residential Care Administrators testified that the State paid $14 in late fees for amounts owed by the State that were delinquent for more than three months.  However, due to the State's late payment, the care home operator incurred late penalty fees on the care home operator's mortgage of more than $1,200.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Replacing specified interest rates that the State must pay on late payments to an operator of an adult day care facility, community care foster family home, or adult residential care home with an unspecified rate;

    

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

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2130, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2130, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

 

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair