Hawaii State law limits Community Care Foster Family Homes (CCFFH or Medicaid Homes), which are two or three bed nursing facilities that provide 24-hour care to resident patients, to just one non-Medicaid patient per home. This means non-Medicaid private pay couples cannot live in the same CCFFH. HB1396 changes that law forever. Rep. Mizuno wrote HB1396 to allow married couples the right to live in the same Medicaid homes forever and this law has no “sunset” date like the Kaide bill had so this bill will be forever.  The law has been in effect since July 1, 2017.