STAND. COM. REP. NO.  967-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3399

      H.D. 2

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. 3399, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHAPTER 346, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to exempt from child care licensing laws two persons living in the same household who can each care for up to two children unrelated to the caregiver.

     The Department of Human Services supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 3399, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3399, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair