Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 582 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the Hawaii State Clearinghouse for Missing Children to, "Missing Child Center-Hawaii."

The Office of the Attorney General testified in support of the bill.

Your Committee finds that the "Hawaii State Clearinghouse for Missing Children" was renamed "Missing Child Center-Hawaii" in 1997 but this change was never made in statute. This measure is needed to avoid a possible public misperception that the two names represent two different entities.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style, clarity, and consistency.

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 H.B. No. 582, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 582, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.