STAND. COM. REP. NO. 408-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2506
                                     H.D. 1




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. 2506 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE
     PARENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to allow the Department of Human
Services to obtain national and local criminal history record
information on prospective adoptive parents and to authorize the
department to contract for home studies of prospective adoptive
parents.

     Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the State
of Hawaii Department of Human Services and the State Attorney
General.

     Your Committee finds that enabling the Hawaii Criminal
Justice Data Center to perform criminal record checks on
prospective adoptive parents, and authorizing the Department of
Human Services to utilize Hawaii social workers with specialized
adoption experience to perform home studies will assist the
Department of Human Services in carrying out its duties in
compliance with requirements of federal law.

     Your Committee has made technical, non-substantive
amendments for the sake of clarity.


 
 
 
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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. 2506, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 2506, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair