STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1221

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 99
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.C.R. No. 99 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE HAWAII APPLESEED
     PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER (HAWAII APPLESEED) TO CONTINUE
     ITS WORK ON A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF HAWAII STATUTES
     RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Hawaii Appleseed
Public Interest Law Center (Hawaii Appleseed) to continue its
work on a comprehensive review of Hawaii statutes relating to
child protection.

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

     In the past two years, statutory amendments to Hawaii's
child protection laws have been proposed and made piecemeal by
the Child Protective Services Roundtable, Auditor, Attorney
General, police, and prosecuting attorneys.  Child protection
laws are spread over seven chapters in the Hawaii Revised
Statutes.  These laws could be made more efficient and effective
by revising and integrating them with a view toward developing an
overall cohesive framework in which to address and remedy child
abuse problems.  Hawaii Appleseed provides this kind of
assistance.


 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure to include in the
Hawaii Appleseed study the effects of two recent federal
enactments on Hawaii statutes.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of
S.C.R. No. 99, as amended herein, and recommends that it be
referred to the Committee on Judiciary, in the form attached
hereto as S.C.R. No. 99, S.D. 1.

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



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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