STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1556

 

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 Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 400, S.D. 1, H.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 encourage child safety policies in child care facilities.

 

     More specifically, this measure requires child care facilities to establish and implement a safe sleep policy in accordance with rules of the Department of Human Services, to prevent occurrences of sudden infant death syndrome and sudden unexpected infant deaths in children less than one year of age.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Department of Health, Child and Family Service, March of Dimes, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure encourages child care facilities to maintain safe sleep environments and procedures to prevent sleep-related deaths in children under the age of one year.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 400, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair