STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1106

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 582

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 582, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MISSING CHILD CENTER-HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the name of the Hawaii State Clearinghouse for Missing Children to "Missing Child Center-Hawaii".

The Attorney General testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that in 1997, the Hawaii Clearinghouse for Missing Children was renamed the Missing Child Center-Hawaii. However, this change was never codified into the statute. To avoid further confusion and misconception to the public that there are two different agencies or entities, your Committee recommended the passage of this measure in order to rectify this confusion.

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. 582, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

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

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair