STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1233-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.R. No. 2
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Public
Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.R. No. 2
entitled: 

     "HOUSE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND
     IMPLEMENTATION OF A SYSTEM TO IDENTIFY AND PROVIDE SERVICES
     AND SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to request the Director of
Human Services and the Director of Public Safety to develop and
implement a system to identify and provide services and support
for children of incarcerated parents.

     The Department of Public Safety and the Hawaii State
Commission on the Status of Women testified in support of the
measure.  The Department of Human Services testified in support
of the intent of the measure.

     Your Committees find that female offenders comprise thirteen
percent of Hawaii's incarcerated population, and in a recent
survey of inmates at the Women's Community Correctional Center,
sixty percent of the incarcerated women there had at least one
child.

     Your Committees further find that although programs are
already in place for children who are currently in the Child
Protective Services System, those that are not in the system lack
the programs needed to meet their special needs.

 
 
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     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding the Department of Health, the Department of
          Education, the Office of Youth Services, and the Hawaii
          Paroling Authority  as collaborators in the development
          and implementation and provide services and support for
          children of incarcerated parents;

     (2)  Requiring that certified copies of this measure be
          transmitted to the Director of Health, Superintendent
          of Education, Chairperson of the Hawaii Paroling
          Authority, and Executive Director of the Office of
          Youth Services; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style
          and clarity.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Human Services and Housing and Public Safety and
Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.R. No. 2, as
amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.R. No. 2,
H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Human Services
                                   and Housing and Public Safety
                                   and Military Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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NESTOR GARCIA, Chair               DENNIS ARAKAKI, Chair