STAND. COM. REP. NO. 472-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2384

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2384 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JUVENILES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish guidelines to determine fitness to proceed to trial for children and youth charged with felonies.

The Attorney General and Hawaii Disability Rights Center testified in support of this measure. The Department of Health supported this measure with amendments. The Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for Hawaii County opposed this measure. The Office of the Public Defender provided comments.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting reference to provisions for involuntary hospitalization criteria; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2384, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2384, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

 

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DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair

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MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair