STAND. COM. REP. NO.  703-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2533

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2533, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF AGGRAVATED CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure the State's compliance with the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and Title IV-E State Plan by amending the definition of "aggravated circumstances" to include situations where a parent:

 

     (1)  Has committed sexual abuse against another child of the parent; or

 

     (2)  Is required to register as a sex offender.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Department of the Attorney General, and Family Programs Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2533, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2533, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair