Bill Text: HI HB2692 | 2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Community Care Foster Family Homes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-13 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. [HB2692 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2020-HB2692-Amended.html
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO COMMUNITY CARE FOSTER FAMILY HOMES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 321-483, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 relating to:
(1) Standards of conditions and competence for the operation of community care foster family homes;
(2) Procedures for obtaining and renewing a certificate of approval from the department;
(3) Minimum grievance procedures for clients of community care foster family home services; and
(4) Requirements
for primary and substitute caregivers caring for three clients in community
care foster family homes including:
(A) Mandating that
primary and substitute caregivers be [twenty-one]
years of age or older;
(B) Mandating that primary and substitute caregivers complete a minimum of twelve hours of continuing education every twelve months or at least twenty-four hours of continuing education every twenty-four months;
(C) Allowing the
primary caregiver to be absent from the community care foster family home for
no more than [twenty-eight] fifty hours in a calendar week, not
to exceed [five] twenty-three hours per day; provided that the
substitute caregiver is present in the community care foster family home during
the primary caregiver's absence;
(D) Where the primary caregiver is absent from the community care foster family home in excess of the hours as prescribed in subparagraph (C), mandating that the substitute caregiver be a certified nurse aide; and
(E) Mandating that the substitute caregiver have, at a minimum, one year prior work experience as a caregiver in a community residential setting or in a medical facility."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2050.
Report Title:
Community Care Foster Family Home; Caregivers; Minimum Age; Hours Absent
Description:
Amends
the minimum age requirement for caregivers caring for three clients in
community care foster family homes. Increases
the number of hours the primary caregiver may be absent from a community care
foster family home; provided that a substitute caregiver is present. Effective 7/1/2050. (HD1)
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
