STAND. COM. REP. NO.  319

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 717

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 717 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MANDATORY REPORTING OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require adult family members to report child abuse or neglect to the Department of Human Services (DHS) or the police, except in situations where the alleged perpetrator is actively abusing both the child and the family member.

     DHS testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by correcting an obsolete statutory reference.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 717, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 717, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair