Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 826, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to expand the list of persons who are authorized to take a victim of child abuse into protective custody and are required to report cases of child abuse to include employees and officers of the Department of Public Safety (DPS).

The Department of Human Services and DPS testified in support of this bill.

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

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 S.B. No. 826, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 826, H.D. 2.