SB929

Report Title:

Sex Offenders; Directs Organizations to Check Registration

 

Description:

Requires organizations providing services to children to check on sex offender registration information by access internet before engaging a person to work with the children.

 

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	929
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SEX OFFENDERS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 846E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§846E-   Youth organizations; obtaining information required. (a) An organization providing services to children under the age of eighteen shall access information on registered sex offenders under section 846E-3(d) prior to engaging a person in a paid or voluntary capacity who will be working in close proximity to children.

(b) For purposes of this section, notwithstanding section 846E-3(d), access to information shall be furnished on the Internet by the Hawaii criminal justice data center; provided that no fee shall be assessed to access the information.

(c) As used in this section, "services" includes sport

activities, recreational activities, after-school and weekend activities, community-school activities, and arts and crafts, or any other extracurricular activities for children."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________