STAND. COM. REP. NO. 291-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2483

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Corrections, Military, & Veterans, to which was referred H.B. No. 2483 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to search criminal histories and fingerprint records of volunteers and contracted and subcontracted service providers of the State's correctional facilities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and CARES.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Department) does not have the statutory authority to conduct criminal history record checks on volunteers and contracted and subcontracted service providers of the State's correctional facilities. Your Committee further finds that the ability to conduct criminal history record checks on volunteers and contracted and subcontracted service providers is essential to ensuring that the State's correctional facilities are staffed with qualified individuals. Your Committee believes that this measure addresses this need by authorizing the Department to conduct criminal history record checks on volunteers and contracted and subcontracted service providers.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Corrections, Military, & Veterans that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2483, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2483, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Corrections, Military, & Veterans,

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair