HB 2421

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H.B. NO.
2421
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2026
STATE OF HAWAII
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]] forty-eight hours in a calendar week[[,
not to exceed five hours per day;]] with no absence longer than
twenty-four consecutive hours; 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2.� Statutory material to be repealed is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 upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
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Report Title:
Community
Care Foster Family Home; Primary Caregiver; Absences
Description:
Changes
the allowed absence by a primary caregiver at a community care foster family
home to 48 hours in calendar week with no absence longer than 24 consecutive
hours.
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