STAND. COM. REP. NO. 452

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 92
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 92 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY CHILD CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase access to child care
by including condominiums and apartments as types of residences
eligible to be used as child care facilities for unrelated
children.

     People Attentive to Children and many individuals submitted
testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Human
Services submitted testimony in support of the intent of this
measure.  The Hawaii Fire Chiefs Association, the Honolulu Fire
Department, the Hawaii Association of Realtors, and many
individuals submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.
The Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners and an
individual submitted comments.

     Your Committee finds that there is a need for more quality,
licensed family child care providers.  Deregulating family child
care homes will encourage unlicensed providers to seek licensure
and offer legal child care to residents of condominiums and
apartments.  Furthermore, this measure encourages persons,
particularly women, to start small, child caring businesses.


 
 
 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Sunsetting this measure on June 30, 2001; and

     (2)  Requiring that when child care providers in
          condominiums and apartments care for:

          (A)  Five or more children they must care for two or
               more children whose parents live in the building;
               and

          (B)  Four children or fewer, they must care for one or
               more children whose parents live in the building.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 92, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 92, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committees on Consumer Protection and
Commerce and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Human Services
                                   and Housing,



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair