Bill Text: HI SB1525 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating To Home Care Agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-03 - Act 158, 06/27/2019 (Gov. Msg. No. 1260). [SB1525 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2019-SB1525-Introduced.html

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1525

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2019

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to home care agencies.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that home care agencies provide an important service to independent but elderly or vulnerable persons by providing home-based non-health care services that enable those persons to remain in their homes, rather than be admitted into costly residential care homes or institutional care facilities.  The legislature further finds that in order to safeguard the health, safety, and welfare of those persons, the current licensure requirements for home care agencies by the department of health should be retained.  Existing licensure requirements include background checks on home care operators and workers and provide minimum standards on the provisions of home care services.  The legislature notes that the current statutory requirement for licensure for home care agencies is set to be repealed on June 30, 2019.  Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to permanently require home care agencies in Hawaii to be licensed by the department of health.

     SECTION 2.  Act 21, Special Session Laws of Hawaii, 2009, as amended by Act 125, Session Laws of Hawaii 2014, is amended by amending section 8 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 8.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009[, and shall be repealed on June 30, 2019; provided that section 321-11 and 321-11.5(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the definition of "health care facility" in section 321-15.2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, shall be reenacted in the form in which they read on June 30, 2009]."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on June 29, 2019.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Home Care Agencies; Licensure; Sunset; Repeal

 

Description:

Makes permanent the licensure requirements for home care agencies licensed by the department of health.

 

 

 

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