Bill Text: HI SB400 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; Sudden Unexpected Infant Death; Safe Sleep Policy

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-01 - Act 071, 4/30/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1171). [SB400 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB400-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1164

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 400

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 400, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to better protect infant children from sudden unexpected infant death and sudden infant death syndrome by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Human Services to adopt rules and conduct training regarding the implementation of a safe sleep policy in all licensed or registered child care facilities and infant and toddler child care centers that provide care for infant children under a year old; and

 

     (2)  Requiring care facilities to create a written safe sleep policy in accordance with Department rules, comply with training requirements, and report the death of children one year of age or younger to the Department.

 

     Child and Family Services, March of Dimes Foundation Hawaii Chapter, Healthy Mothers Health Babies Coalition of Hawaii, and many individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services opposed this bill.  Department of Health and many individuals commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting language specifying required aspects of a safe sleep policy, requiring the Department of Human Services to conduct training on safe sleep policies, and establishing training and reporting requirements for child care providers in order to allow the Department of Human Services to adopt rules governing these issues in accordance with Chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes; and

 

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

 

     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 S.B. No. 400, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 400, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair