Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1512, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help reduce domestic violence by authorizing the Director of Health to establish domestic violence fatality review teams to conduct multidisciplinary and multiagency reviews of domestic violence fatalities.

The Department of the Attorney General, Department of Health, County of Hawaii Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, County of Kauai Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, and Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1512, S.D. 1, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1512, S.D. 1, H.D. 3.