STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1103
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 118
H.D. 3
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 118, H.D. 3, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY CHILD CARE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the growth of the family child-care home industry by:
(1) Extending the time period in which family child-care homes located within townhouses have to notify their respective associations;
(2) Requiring child-care operators to agree to assume responsibility for physical modifications to unit and common areas of the family child-care home that are readily achievable;
(3) Clarifying the extent to which a family child-care home is subject to the respective association declarations, by-laws, or rules;
(4) Eliminating unnecessary notarization requirements;
(5) Setting a coverage limit of $1 million in liability insurance for a family child-care provider; and
(6) Changing the repeal date of the family child care home law to June 30, 2005.
Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Council of Associations of Apartment Owners, Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children, Good Beginnings Alliance, and ten individuals.
Your Committee finds that child-care services are important to the well-being of families throughout the State. Many parents depend on the services of child-care providers to ensure their children are properly cared for while they work. However, expansion of the availability of quality family child-care providers is necessary. This measure eliminates unnecessary requirements that needlessly hinder the establishment of family child-care homes in the State while ensuring that quality and child-safety are maintained.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the family child care operator is responsible for all physical modifications to the premises that are readily achievable;
(2) Deleting superfluous language; and
(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes to reflect the current language of the Hawaii Revised Statutes and preferred drafting style.
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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 118, H.D. 3, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 118, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Housing.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health and Human Services,
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____________________________ DAVID MATSUURA, Chair |
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