STAND. COM. REP. NO.  206-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2560

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Housing and Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2560 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to permit family child care homes to operate in agriculturally designated districts, provided that the family child care home was constructed prior to July 1, 2014.

 

     PHOCUSED, People Attentive to Children (PATCH), and numerous concerned citizens supported this bill.  The Department of Agriculture opposed this bill.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by clarifying its language to specify that family child care homes are a permitted use of farm dwellings in agriculturally designated districts.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2560, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2560, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Human Services,

 

 

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MELE CARROLL, Chair

 

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair