STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1078

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 516

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 516, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PATERNITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to remove the time period on actions to determine paternity brought during the pendency of adoption proceedings and for good cause in the absence of adoption proceedings.

 

     The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 516, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

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MELE CARROLL, Chair

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair