CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 113-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2014

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1993

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir and Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1993, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

The purpose of this measure is to protect minors and other household members from domestic abuse by:

 

(1)  Requiring police officers to make a reasonable inquiry of the family or household member upon whom the officer believes that physical abuse or harm has been inflicted, and inquire the same of any available witnesses;

 

(2)  Requiring a police officer to order a person to leave the premises for a period of separation of forty-eight hours, regardless of whether the police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that there is probable danger of further physical abuse or harm being inflicted by one person upon a family or household member; and

 

(3)  Making the commission of an act of physical abuse in the presence of a family or household member who is less than fourteen years of age a class C felony.

 

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Specifying that the person ordered by a police officer to leave the premises for a period of separation of forty-eight hours is the person whom the police officer reasonably believes has inflicted the abuse; and

 

(2)  Changing its effective date to upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1993, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1993, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair

 

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MELE CARROLL, Co-Chair

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN,

Co-Chair

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair

 

 

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SCOTT Y. NISHIMOTO, Co-Chair