STAND. COM. REP. NO.  987-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2590

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2590, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make paramount the safety and health of children under the Child Protective Act by providing that in the determination by the court on whether to place a child in foster custody or under family supervision:

 

(1)  The court shall consider whether the alleged or potential perpetrator of imminent harm, harm, or threatened harm should be removed from the family home, rather than continuing the child's placement in foster care; and

 

(2)  The child's family shall have the burden of establishing that it is in the child's best interest to remove the child from the family home, rather than removing the alleged or potential perpetrator from the family home.

 

     The Department of Human Services testified in support of the intent of this measure.  

 


     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate continued discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2590, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2590, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair