STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1708_______

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1270
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 1270, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow private schools to
develop procedures for obtaining verifiable information regarding
the criminal history of persons who are employed or are seeking
employment in positions which place them in close proximity with
children.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Attorney General, the Department of Education and the
Hawaii Association of Independent Schools.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will enhance the
safety of children in our private schools.

     Your Committee amended this bill by:

     1.   Making it mandatory for the Department of Education and
          the Counties to develop procedures for obtaining
          verifiable information regarding the criminal history
          of persons who are employed, seeking employment, or
          seeking to serve as teacher trainees in any public
          school, or who are employed or seeking employment in

 
 
 
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          positions which place them in close proximity to
          children;

     2.   Changing the type of criminal history for which a
          school may refuse to employ or for which a school may
          terminate employment from "a crime, other than a minor
          traffic offense involving a fine of $50 or less," to
          "an offense for which incarceration is a sentencing
          option"; and

     3.   Making technical and non-substantive changes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1270, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 1270, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair