Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 1110, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to add child abuse checks as a requirement for licensed child care providers and staff, and requires the Department of Human Services to disclose verified criminal history and child abuse information on employees to their employers.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Honolulu Police Department, and the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that under current law, criminal history checks are required for persons working within licensed child care facilities. Child abuse record checks are required by Administrative Rule for persons working within licensed child care facilities. This measure strengthens the child abuse record check requirements by providing statutory authority for the checks. This check is required to help ensure the health and safety of children in these settings.

Your Committee adopted the recommendations of the Department of Human Services to amend the measure to clarify that only conviction criminal history record information can be disclosed to the employer by the Department of Human Services. Your Committee has also amended this measure by making defective the effective date of this measure as a means to channel the measure to conference.

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