HB 1358 Summary

• Requires the Hawaii Department of Health to provide respite care to operators of type I adult residential care homes, community care foster family homes, and expanded adult residential care homes who employ no unrelated, non-resident employees.

• Respite care options include providing temporary lodging for the operator's Medicaid-eligible clients or paying for a substitute certified nurse aide to work at the facility (specific duration not specified in bill text).

• Department of Health must make respite care available upon request to eligible operators on any inhabited island in the state and shall adopt administrative rules to implement the program.

• Appropriates unspecified funding from general revenues for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 for the Department of Health to administer the respite care program.

• Effective July 1, 2023.