STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2501

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2803

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONTRACT PROPOSALS FOR CHILD CARE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit the performance of a contract by any applicant who lacks an appropriate license and require contract proposals submitted under chapter 103F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to include the all-inclusive cost to the State.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and the Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure would require the performance of a contract, and not the submittal of a contract proposal, to be prohibited if the applicant lacks the appropriate license.  However, your Committee further finds that the amendments proposed by this measure are not consistent with the title of this measure, which was originally intended to address problems for child care contracts.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its entire contents with the original S.B. No. 2803, which allows the Department of Human Services to accept contract proposals from organizations that are not yet licensed to operate a child care program at specific locations.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2803, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair