Bill Text: HI HB2568 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating to Background Checks; Department of Health and Designees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 285, 7/6/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1402). [HB2568 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2568-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3029

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2568

       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 Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2568, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BACKGROUND CHECKS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to allow the Department of Health to designate an entity to perform services on its behalf relating to background checks for employment, volunteer, contracting, licensure, or certification purposes.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that a modern background check system to safeguard the frail, elderly, and vulnerable populations that receive care in or from Hawaii's health care facilities or organizations can be performed by private vendors at little or no cost to the State and that such a system is in the interest of the residents of the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to upon approval; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

 

     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. 2568, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2568, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

____________________________

JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair

 

 

 

 

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