STAND. COM. REP. NO. 760-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2098
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 2098, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require private schools,
cooperating with the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center (Data
Center), to conduct criminal history verifications of applicants
for employment that place them in positions in close proximity
with children.

     The Department of the Attorney General, the Hawaii
Association of Independent Schools, the Seventh-Day Adventist
Church's Integrated Ministry for Children and Youth, the Sex
Abuse Treatment Center, and a concerned individual testified in
support of the measure.

     Your Committee finds that the public school sector of
education has in place a criminal history checking system with
the Data Center; however the private school sector is not
required to participate.  Your Committee finds that it is fair to
require the private school sector to participate.
 
     Your Committee has amended the bill by making technical and
nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.


 
 
 
 
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     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 H.B. No. 2098, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto
as H.B. No. 2098, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair