STAND. COM. REP. NO. 490

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1048
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1048 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSTER BOARDING HOMES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow foster boarding
homes to take in six or more minor siblings and to require a
criminal history records name inquiry for the first two years of
certification and biennially thereafter.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Human Services (DHS).

     This is an administration measure to avoid separating large
families with six or more siblings.  This measure also allows the
DHS to make a name inquiry into the criminal history records for
the first two years of certification of a foster boarding home
and biennially thereafter.  Current law does not provide for
follow-up criminal history checks after certification.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying the times of the criminal history records
          checks on the recommendation of the DHS;

     (2)  Deleting the amendment to the definition of criminal
          history record check and inserting the same amendment
          into the criminal history record check statute,

 
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          section 346-19.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  This
          amendment was made to move substantive language from
          the definitions section; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1048, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1048,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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