Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 696 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the amount of the fee charged for a criminal history record name inquiry and a criminal history record check, as well as expand the fee exemption for criminal history record checks to include volunteers with non-profit charitable organizations who work with the elderly or disabled.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General and the Hawaii Youth Services Network.

Your Committee finds that since 1998, the fees charged for criminal history record checks have remained static. Your Committee finds that a five-dollar increase in that fee is warranted and will equalize the cost of a fingerprint-based criminal record check with a name-based criminal record check. Your Committee has also expanded the criminal history record check fee exemption to include volunteers from non-profit organizations that send volunteers to work with the elderly and disabled. This fee exemption will enable these organizations to perform these checks at no cost, and thereby ensure that only qualified and trained volunteers will be serving Hawaii's elderly and disabled populations.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 696 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.