Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 845 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to expand the current authority of the Department of Education (DOE) to conduct criminal history record checks and make informed decisions on employment suitability, by requiring DOE to conduct criminal history record checks on providers or subcontractors and institute of higher education trainees in positions in the public schools in close proximity to children.

The Department of Human Resources Development, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and Hawaii Youth Services Network testified in support of this measure. DOE supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by inserting an appropriation of $1 to implement the provisions of the bill. Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for purposes of clarity.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 845, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 845, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.