STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2733

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3051

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 3051, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Human Services, or its designee, to conduct criminal history record checks for those individuals providing services to adults and children at risk.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and the Office of Youth Services.  Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel submitted testimony in support of this measure with amendments.

     Your Committee finds that, due to the tremendous rise in requests for criminal history record checks, the Department of Human Services finds that it may be beneficial to enable the Department to contract the services of an outside entity so that it can focus on its core responsibilities.  While your Committee believes the concept has merit, it believes that this issue would benefit from further discussion and deliberation.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the provisions that would enable the Department of Human Services to outsource the responsibility to conduct criminal history record checks to a designee;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, style, and to accurately reflect existing law.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3051, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3051, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair