STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1242
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 161
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Labor and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 161, H.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to create a temporary working group to review policy issues concerning access and use of criminal history record information for employment and licensing purposes.
The Attorney General, the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, the Department of Human Services, and the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools submitted testimony in support of the measure. The Office of Information Practices took no position on the measure.
Your Committees find that the formation of this temporary working group is in response to a recommendation made by the Legislative Reference Bureau in its study of access and use of criminal history record information for employment and licensing purposes. In part, the study called for the creation of a representative working group to resolve policy issues by conducting a comprehensive review and analysis of all issues relating to the noncriminal justice-related public access and use of criminal history record information for employment and licensing determinations.
Your Committees have amended the measure by:
(1) Adding a representative from the Judiciary to the working group;
(2) Adding as an issue to be considered by the working group, whether the Department of Education and other youth-service organizations should be required to use the Hawaii Sex Offender Website to investigate their volunteers, and if so, what should be the parameters of such use; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 161, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 161, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary,
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____________________________ CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair |
____________________________ BOB NAKATA, Chair |
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____________________________ BRIAN KANNO, Chair |