STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2890

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2540

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2540, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FEES FOR CHILD CARE LICENSING AND REGISTRATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow the Department of Human Services to charge reasonable fees to applicants seeking a child care license or certificate of registration for the operation of group child care homes or group child care centers; and

 

     (2)  Establish the child care licensing and registration special fund into which these fees will be deposited.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Human Services, as the licensing authority of group child care homes and group child care centers, absorbs administrative costs that are associated with licensing and certification activities, including site visits, observation of providers with children, inspections to ensure compliance with administrative rules to ensure the health and safety of the child care operations, and the assessment of the findings.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language that adds the concept of furthering the provision of quality child care services as an additional purpose for which monies in the child care licensing and registration special fund may be used.

 

     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. 2540, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2540, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair