Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1110, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of the bill is to require:

DHS testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure would codify DHS's administrative rule requiring criminal history and child abuse record checks of persons working within licensed child care facilities. This measure would also extend this policy to license-exempt providers subsidized by DHS.

However, your Committee understands that there are strong concerns about the disclosure of criminal conviction and abuse information.

Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the requirement that DHS disclose verified conviction and abuse information about employees or potential employees to licensed child care providers.

Technical, nonsubstantive amendments have also been made for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1110, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1110, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.