Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 230 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect vulnerable children by requiring mandatory physical and medical forensic examinations of children placed in protective custody.

The Department of Human Services submitted comments on the bill.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 230 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.