STAND. COM. REP. NO.2758

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2149

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2149 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to establish rebuttable presumptions for the court in determining release of information related to cases involving a missing child.

Your Committee finds that there are circumstances that outweigh concerns of confidentiality of information. In particular, access to records that will materially assist authorities in locating a child should be allowed over concerns as to the confidentiality of information raised on behalf of other family members, and concerns of the potentially harmful effect that access may have to the missing child's family members.

Your Committee has amended this measure by defecting the effective date to promote further discussion and development of this measure.

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 S.B. No. 2149, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2149, S.D. 1.

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

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair