STAND. COM. REP. NO. 912-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2850
                                     S.D. 1
                                     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 Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2850, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KINSHIP CARE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish kinship care by
providing guidelines under which a person may become a kinship
provider.

     The Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Department of
the Attorney General (AG) submitted testimony in support of this
bill, which also included recommended changes.

     Your Committee notes that a similar bill, H.B. No. 2509,
H.D. 2, passed the House earlier this session after hearings
before your Committees on Human Services and Housing, and
Finance.

     After careful consideration, your Committee has amended this
bill by conforming its substance to that of H.B. No. 2509, H.D.
2.  The recommendations of the DHS and the AG were either
conforming and therefore, unnecessary, or contrary to the
substance of the aforesaid H.B. No. 2509, and therefore, were not
included as amendments to this bill.  Specifically, this bill has
been amended in substance by: 


 
 
 
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     (1)  Mandating, as opposed to merely authorizing, the DHS to
          adopt rules relating to kinship care;

     (2)  Restricting the purpose of fingerprinting to that of
          complying with the criminal history record check;

     (3)  Authorizing the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center to
          assess a reasonable fee for the criminal history check
          "conducted," as opposed to just the criminal history
          check "information" as provided for in this bill;

     (4)  Deleting section 3 of this bill; and 

     (5)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

     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 S.B. No. 2850, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2850, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
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