Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2795 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to repeal the transfer of functions from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Education regarding employment background checks for the after-school plus program, private vendors, and other employees and trainees who work with public school students.

Your Committees received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education. Your Committees also received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

Your Committees find that this measure supports the findings of the interagency working group and will promote the efficient functioning of state government.

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Education and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2795, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2795, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.