SB 2161

SD1

RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN.

Establishes a foster children's bill of rights. (SD1)

SB 2162

SD1

RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN.

Allows foster children to apply for a driver's license with the written consent of the Department of Human Services. Requires the child's biological parents to pay for vehicle insurance and provides for free insurance if the child's parents cannot pay. Allows higher education board allowances to be paid directly to former foster children. (SD1)

SB 2166

SD1

RELATING TO MINORS.

Allows a minor under certain circumstances to consent to the provision of medical care and services. (SD1)

SB 3254

SD1

RELATING TO HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES.

Removes the sunset date for the licensing of home and community-based case management agencies and the certification of community care foster family homes until. (SD1)

SB 2615

SD1

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION.

Affirms the importance of kinship placement and a child's attachment and bonding with a kin or non-kin foster caregiver. Requires the department of human services to make a good faith effort, which includes consulting with the Na Kupuna Tribunal, to identify family members for possible placement of a child. (SD1)

SB 2688

SD1

RELATING TO CORRECTIONS.

Requires implementation of policies and procedures, protocols, and a quality assurance program to ensure adequate youth correctional facility staff training. Provides for comprehensive assessments of all persons committed to youth correctional facilities. Revises duties and responsibilities of regional advisory boards. (SD1)

SB 3233

SD1

RELATING TO PARENTING PLANS.

Authorizes the court or the parties to change a parenting plan at any time during the minority of the child without requiring a material change of circumstances. (SD1)

SB 3219

SD1

RELATING TO COMMUNITY PLACEMENT.

Directs the departments of health and human services to maintain an inventory of all facilities licensed or certified under their jurisdiction and their vacancies to facilitate the placement of individuals in community-based facilities. (SD1)

SB 2188

SD1

RELATING TO A COMMISSION ON FATHERHOOD.

Replaces the director of the office of children and youth with the director of public safety, or a designee, as a member of the commission. (SD1)

SB 3200

SD1

RELATING TO CHILD PROTECTION.

Provides immunity from prosecution for leaving an unharmed newborn at a hospital, fire station, or police station within seventy-two hours of its birth. Provides immunity for personnel receiving a newborn. Requires medical history from a person relinquishing a newborn. (SD1)

SB 2328

SD1

RELATING TO NOTICE TO FOSTER PARENTS FOR CHAPTER 587, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT HEARINGS.

Authorizes a child's current foster parents to attend and participate as parties in all Child Protective Act proceedings subsequent to a disposition hearing. (SD1)

SB 2332

SD1

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Amends the definitions of "public housing project" and "tenant" for purposes of evictions from federal public housing. Amends references to the time period in which a public housing tenant has to request a grievance hearing in the written notice of eviction to conform to the recently amended grievance procedure rules. Amends reference to public housing project or complex in the residential landlord-tenant code. (SD1)

SB 2327

SD1

RELATING TO CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT REPORTING.

Requires staff members of public or private schools, agency, or institutions who, in their professional capacity, have reason to believe that child abuse or neglect has occurred, or that there exists a substantial risk that a child may be abused or neglected in the foreseeable future, to immediately report the abuse or neglect directly to the DHS.

SB 2443

SD1

RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TASK FORCE TO DETERMINE VISITATION RIGHTS FOR GRANDPARENTS AND HANAI INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INFORMALLY RAISING THESE CHILDREN.

Establishes a joint legislative task force to determine visitation rights of grandparents and hanai individuals who raise grandchildren they have informally raised when biological parent is unable to do so. (SD1)

SB 2938

SD1

RELATING TO COMMUNITY NOTIFICATION.

Requires that community organizations such as neighborhood boards and community associations be notified when halfway houses, clean and sober homes, or drug rehabilitation homes are being proposed to be situated in their community. (SD1)

SB 2079

SD1

RELATING TO CHILDREN.

Establishes a motor vehicle violation that prohibits leaving a child unsupervised in a motor vehicle. Requires the examiner of drivers to test driver's license applicants for knowledge of this offense. (SD1)

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Senator Colleen Hanabusa