Report Title:

Victim notification

 

Description:

Mandates the family court to provide relevant information to the department of public safety for the purposes of maintaining a statewide victim information and notification program.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1788

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to family court.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Chapter 571, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

     "§571-A   Victim information and notification programs; cooperation.     The court shall provide relevant information to any statewide victim information and notification program operated by the department of public safety, if any, on law violators as defined by section 571-11(1) if such law violator, if tried as an adult, would have been charged with any of the following offenses:

     (1)  sections 707-701, 707-701.5, 707-702;

     (2)  any offense listed under Part III of chapter 707;

     (3)  sections 707-720 and 707-721; and

     (4)  any offense listed under Part V of chapter 707, with the exception of 707-734."

     SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

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

 

 

 

INTRODUCED BY:

_____________________________