STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1363

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 77
                                        




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.C.R. No. 77 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CHILD
     PROTECTIVE SERVICES ROUNDTABLE TO FORM A TASK FORCE TO
     EXAMINE AND DISCUSS SELECTED ISSUES RELATING TO CHILD
     ABUSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Child
Protective Services Roundtable (CPS Roundtable) to form a task
force to examine and discuss selected issues relating to child
abuse.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Human Services and Department of the
Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

     The CPS Roundtable is an ad hoc group of social and health
service providers, foster parents, guardians ad litem, legal and
medical professionals, educators, law enforcement
representatives, child protective services social workers, family
members of abused children, survivors of child abuse and neglect,
legislators, and family court judges and social workers.  The CPS
Roundtable has been instrumental in improving the child
protective services system, including enactment of its
recommendations in Act 134, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, the
omnibus child protection bill.  The CPS Roundtable is continuing
to meet and to discuss issues relating to child protection, in

 
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the recognition that the child protective services system is not
perfect.  This measure requests the CPS Roundtable to examine
issues concerning:

     (1)  Reporting of child abuse;

     (2)  Effective consent under the Penal Code;

     (3)  Procedures relating to out-of-family abuse;

     (4)  Age of majority;

     (5)  Manner in which guardian ad litem services are
          provided;

     (6)  Licensing and training requirements for specially
          licensed relative foster boarding homes;

     (7)  Incidences of child exploitation and their relationship
          to child abuse and neglect; and

     (8)  Other circumstances that endanger the welfare of a
          child in cases of criminal child abuse.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of
S.C.R. No. 77, and recommends that it be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   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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