STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2330

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3080

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 3080 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION BACKGROUND CHECKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide for public health and safety by enabling the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) to perform criminal history record checks on all existing employees, prospective contractors, volunteers, and vendors via the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center's Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) checks.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and the Hawaii Government Employees Association.

     Your Committee finds that, due to a shortage of health care workers, HHSC has recruited heavily from out-of-state.  Your Committee further finds that in-state checks have been conducted since the creation of HHSC.  This measure will enable in-state and out-of-state criminal checks to be done in an efficient and effective manner by allowing access to the FBI databank where criminal history records for all states can be retrieved.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3080 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair