STAND. COM. REP. NO.  68

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 247

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 247 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INVOLUNTARY HOSPITALIZATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to better protect the people of the State from sexual violence by permitting the involuntary hospitalization of a sexually violent predator in a psychiatric facility.

 

     The Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu supported this bill.  The Department of Health opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing the definition of "sexually violent predator" to include a person who suffers from a mental illness rather than a person who suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 247, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 247, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair