STAND. COM. REP. NO. 495

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 995
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Labor and
Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 995 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELDERLY AND DEPENDENT
     ADULTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow a dependent adult or
representative of a dependent adult to obtain verifiable
information on criminal history or history of dependent adult
abuse of a person or entity who is caring for the dependent
adult.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Human Services (DHS), State
Attorney General, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs,
and Executive Office on Aging.  The Department of Health
submitted testimony deferring to the DHS.

     Your Committees are aware of and are concerned with the
growing number of incidences of abuse, neglect, and fraud of
dependent adults.  One avenue of prevention is to be assured of
the reputable character of the person who cares for a dependent
adult.  This measure allows a dependent adult or a dependent
adult's representative to access the criminal history, if any, of
the person who cares for or who is applying for a job to care for
a dependent adult.


 
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     Your Committees have amended this measure on the
recommendation of the DHS to delete all the provisions and to
insert provisions to allow the DHS to conduct criminal history
records checks as part of its licensing process for day care
centers for elder disabled and aged persons.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Labor and Environment
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 995, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 995, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Judiciary.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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