Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1104, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow foster parents to sign routine school forms and recreational permission slips for foster children in their care without unnecessary delays.

The Department of Human Services, Department of Education, and Hawaii Youth Services Network testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will facilitate the ability of foster parents to readily access educational and recreational activities for their foster children.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that consent covers educational and recreational "needs" of the foster child.

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. 1104, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1104, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.