STAND. COM. REP. NO.882
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 1126
S.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-First State Legislature
Regular Session of 2001
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1126, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Enable the Department of Health (DOH) to continue to obtain criminal history record information on individuals seeking employment with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, and its providers or subcontractors who have direct contact with clients; and
(2) Appropriate funds out of the State Criminal History Record Improvement Revolving Fund to support these efforts.
DOH, the Department of the Attorney General, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and Hale Opio Kauai, Inc. testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee finds that DOH's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division provides an array of services to a very vulnerable population.
Furthermore, your Committee finds that this bill would ensure the safety of clients by enabling the department to determine a person's suitability for providing direct, unsupervised, mental health services to clients.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1126, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |