CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO.97

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   H.B. No. 1119
                                  H.D. 1
                                  S.D. 1
                                  C.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate
in H.B. No. 1119, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

    "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to improve child welfare
services by:

     (1) Adding two Child Protective Services (CPS), line
         staffers to the CPS Reform Coordinating Committee and
         providing that the committee members be appointed by the
         Director of Human Services; and

     (2) Allowing the Department of Human Services to share
         information with the "neighborhood places" established
         by the Child Protective and Diversion Services Pilot
         Project; and

 
 
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     (3) Extending the Committee for three years.

     Your Committee on Conference has amended the bill by:

     (1) Creating a two-year demonstration project to assist and
         support social workers to improve the delivery of child
         welfare services; and

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

     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of H.B. No. 1119, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1119, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted,

MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE        MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE
           SENATE                              HOUSE
                                   
                                   
                                   
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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Co-Chair     DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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AVERY CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair           BERTHA C. KAWAKAMI, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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WHITNEY ANDERSON, Member           MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA,
                                   Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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                                   DAVID D. STEGMAIER, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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                                   DAVID PENDLETON, Member