Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2330 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Youth Services to obtain criminal history record checks on all employees, prospective employees, and volunteers of its contracted providers and subcontractors in positions that require close proximity to youth when providing services on its behalf.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services, Department of Human Resources Development and the Office of Youth Services.

Your Committee finds that requiring the Office of Youth Services to obtain criminal history record checks on all prospective employees and volunteers will provide additional protection to the vulnerable youth population at the facility.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2330, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.