STAND. COM. REP. NO 2992

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2243

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2243, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD CHECKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow qualified entities to request state and national fingerprint-based criminal history record checks on their applicants, employees, and volunteers who provide care for children, vulnerable adults, or individuals with disabilities, and to receive the results directly.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Human Services, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that Section 5119a of the National Child Protection Act of 1993, Public Law No. 103-209, as amended, authorizes public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit entities to submit requests for fingerprint-based criminal history record checks on their applicants, employees, and volunteers who provide care to children, vulnerable adults, or individuals with disabilities.  Generally, an authorized government agency must receive the results and make the suitability determination.  This measure will allow information to be provided directly to a non-government agency upon receipt of a waiver from the individual on whom the criminal history record check is being run.  Your Committee finds that this measure will allow Hawaii's qualified entities to make better and faster decisions in situations that may affect the safety and well-being of Hawaii's children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2243, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2243, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair