STAND. COM. REP. NO. 646

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1512

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1512 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Director of Health to establish domestic violence fatality review teams to review domestic violence related fatalities.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General, the Department of Health, the Judiciary, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for the County of Hawaii, the Honolulu Police Department, the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, and the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

This measure authorizes the Director of Health to convene domestic violence fatality review teams, comprised of individuals with multidisciplinary and multi-agency backgrounds, to conduct reviews of domestic violence related fatalities with the goal of reducing the occurrences of preventable domestic violence related fatalities.

Your Committee has amended this measure by broadening the definition of "victim" to include both adults and children.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1512, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1512, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair