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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 990-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: H.B. No. 2340
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2340 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS UNDER THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee recognizes that the Department of Human Services (Department) needs to conduct a thorough assessment when allegations of abuse or threatened abuse prove credible. However, your Committee is concerned that the authority to conduct criminal history background checks on all persons in the household where the child resides is subject to potential abuse. Your Committee believes that reasonable suspicion must exist before a criminal history background check is warranted.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure to address these concerns by permitting the Department to conduct the subject background checks when an assessment is required. The amendments are intended to make clear that the Legislature does not intend to give carte blanche authority to the Department to run criminal background checks as a matter of routine.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2340, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2340, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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