STAND. COM. REP. NO.  662-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2503

      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 Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2503 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FOSTER BOARDING HOMES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Services to:

     (1)  Conduct interviews of neighbors of persons and organizations seeking their initial certificate of approval to operate and maintain a foster boarding home; and

     (2)  Distribute confidential lists of foster boarding homes in the community annually to the chiefs of police in their respective counties.

An individual testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services and the Judiciary opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Authorizing, rather than requiring, the Department of Human Services to conduct interviews of neighbors of persons or organizations seeking an initial certificate of approval; and

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2060, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 2503, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2503, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair