STAND. COM. REP. NO.  792-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 2558

      H.D. 3

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2558, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to reduce the likelihood of future child abuse or neglect in a household where there is a history of such occurrences by authorizing the Department of Human Services (DHS) to conduct unannounced visits to inspect a parental home in which a household member was convicted or adjudicated for certain offenses of child abuse or neglect.

     A concerned individual supported this bill.  DHS opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by replacing the appropriation of $1,000,000 with an unspecified amount.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2558, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2558, H.D. 3.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair