Bill Text: HI HB398 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Working Group; Transition of Oversight of Home and Community-Based Facilities; Department of Health; Department of Human Services

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-02 - Act 215, 6/27/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1318). [HB398 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB398-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 931

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 398

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 398, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require child care facilities, including family child care homes, group child care centers, and group child care homes, and infant and toddler child care centers that are registered or licensed by the Department of Human Services to provide care for children less than one year of age to develop, maintain, and implement safe sleep policies, in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Human Services, to prevent sudden unexpected infant death and sudden infant death syndrome.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Child and Family Service, PATCH, Big Island Adult Foster Home Operators, Alliance of Residential Care Administrators, United Group of Home Operators, and forty-nine individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Health, Department of Human Services, and Nightingale Case Management.

 

Your Committees find that Hawaii is one of only seven states that do not regulate sleep positions in child care centers or family child care homes.  Requiring child care facilities that care for children under the age of one year to implement safe sleep policies will help to prevent infant deaths caused by unsafe sleeping environments and positions.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding language to establish a task force to address issues affecting home and community-based facilities during the transition of services from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Health and to require the task force to report its findings to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the 2014 Regular Session;

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     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. 398, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 398, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.

 

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

 

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, Chair		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair