STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1047-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2321

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2321, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Require domestic violence intervention training for any state and county employees whose job duties require or may require intervention in a domestic abuse situation; and

 

     (2)  Appropriate funds to the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women to provide domestic violence intervention training.

 

     The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Parents and Children Together, Domestic Violence Action Center, Hawaii State Democratic Women's Caucus, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, American Association of University Women in Hawaii, Hawaii Women's Coalition, and several individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Public Safety supported the intent of this measure.  The Hawaii State Fire Council and Honolulu Fire Department provided comments.


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the expending agency for the appropriation from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women to the Department of Human Resources Development; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2321, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2321, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair