STAND. COM. REP. NO. 20

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 651

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 651 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to continue the authorization granted to the Department of Health to obtain criminal history record information on persons who are seeking employment with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division and its providers or subcontractors, who are in positions that place them in direct contact with the clients. This bill also appropriates funds out of the State Criminal History Record Improvement Revolving Fund to support these efforts.

Your Committee realizes that the Department of Health's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division provides an array of services to a very vulnerable population. Furthermore, your Committee finds that this bill would ensure the safety of clients by enabling the department to determine a person's suitability for providing direct, unwitnessed, mental health services to clients.

The Department of Health and the Office of the Attorney General testified in strong support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 651 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Education and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair