Bill Text: HI SB748 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Child Care Facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Ichiyama excused (1). [SB748 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SB748-Introduced.html
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
748 |
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to child care facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-153, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§346-153 Records of deficiencies and
complaints; release to public[.]; report to legislature. (a)
For every child care facility, the department shall maintain records for the current
and previous two years of: results of its inspections; notifications to providers
of deficiencies; corrective action taken; complaints of violations of rules adopted
under this part; results of its investigations; resolution of complaints; and suspensions,
revocations, reinstatements, restorations, and reissuances of licenses, temporary
permits, and registrations issued under this part. Notwithstanding any other law
to the contrary, the records described in this section shall be available for
inspection in the manner set forth in chapter 92F and [may] shall
be posted by the department on a public website; provided that with respect to
records of family child care homes and group child care homes, sensitive
personal information, including home addresses, or information provided to the department
with the understanding that it would not be publicly divulged shall be deleted or
obliterated prior to making the records available to the public. Nothing in this
section shall authorize the department to release the names of or any other identifying
information on complainants. The department may withhold information on a complaint
for which an investigation is being conducted for not more than ten working days
following the date of filing of the complaint; provided that if an investigation
relates to an alleged criminal offense, no information shall be released until the
investigation has been completed and the director has determined that no legal proceeding
will be jeopardized by its release.
(b) The department shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session that includes the following information from the records maintained pursuant to subsection (a):
(1) Complaints of violations of rules adopted pursuant to this part and actions the department took to address the complaints;
(2) Results of investigations; and
(3) License revocations."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2017.
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Report Title:
Child Care Facilities; Records; Public Posting; Report
Description:
Requires the department of human services to post its inspection records of child care facilities on a public website and submit an annual report to the legislature of certain information from inspection records related to child care facilities.
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