Report Title:

Department of Human Services; Domestic Abuse

Description:

Requires the department of human services to provide a written report to the court and the parties two days prior to a hearing in a case where there are allegations of domestic abuse. (SD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1161
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007		S.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to domestic abuse.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 586-10.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§586-10.5  Reports by the department of human services.  In cases where there are allegations of domestic abuse involving a family or household member who is a minor or an incapacitated person as defined in section 560:5-102, the employee or appropriate nonjudicial agency designated by the family court to assist the petitioner shall report the matter to the department of human services, as required under chapters 350 and 587, and shall further notify the department of the granting of the temporary restraining order and of the hearing date.  The department of human services shall provide the family court with an oral or written report [of the investigation's progress on or] on the disposition of the referral, which the court shall provide to the parties at least two days before the hearing date[.], if possible.  The report by the department of human services shall be noted in the order dismissing the petition or granting the restraining order."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.