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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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SENATE RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES and public housing TO CONVENE a working group TO further STUDY recommendations made by the Scr 52 Task Force committees.
WHEREAS, in the 2004 Regular Session, the Senate adopted Senate Resolution No. 40, authorizing the Senate Committee on Human Services to convene interim hearings on the Hawaii Family Court; and
WHEREAS, the interim hearings were designed to explore ways to make the Hawaii Family Court more accessible and family oriented and focused on important issues relating to reduction in caseload; and
WHEREAS, some of the recommendations were adopted and received legislative attention, but there were still other issues that remained unresolved; and
WHEREAS, to continue work on the unresolved issues, in the 2006 Regular Session, the Senate and the House of Representatives adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 52, S.D. 1, authorizing the Committees on Human Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives to convene interim hearings on the use of legal interventions available to the Family Court and to establish one or more task forces to facilitate their work; and
WHEREAS, the SCR 52 Task Force was established for that purpose; and
WHEREAS, there are other issues and recommendations that the SCR 52 Task Force needs to study further; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2007, that the Senate Committee on Human Services and Public Housing is requested to convene a working group to further study the outstanding recommendations of the four committees that were formed relating to Family Court Models, Family Court Sunshine and Accountability, Temporary Restraining Orders, and the Best Interests of the Child, and any other related issues; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, upon the adoption of this Resolution, the working group is to be referred to as the Family Court Legal Interventions Working Group and cease to exist on January 1, 2009; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Family Court Legal Interventions Working Group include one representative of the Department of Human Services; the Department of Health; the Hawaii Association of Marriage and Family Therapists; the Family Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association; the National Association of Social Workers, Hawaii Chapter; the Children's Rights Council; the Hawaii Coalition for Dads; Legal Aid Society of Hawaii; Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii; the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence; the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline; the Mediation Center of the Pacific; EPIC Ohana Conferencing; the Hawaii Psychological Association; and the Family Justice Alliance; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Family Court Legal Interventions Working Group submit an interim report, including any proposed legislation, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2008, and submit a final report, including any proposed legislation, no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2009; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the President of the Senate, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, the Chair of the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor, the Director of Human Services, the Director of Health, President of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, Chair of the Family Law Section, President of the Hawaii State Bar Association, Executive Director of the Hawaii Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, President of the Children's Rights Council of Hawaii, President of the Hawaii Coalition for Dads, President of the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Executive Director of Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii, Executive Director of the Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Executive Director of the Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline, President of the Board of Directors of the Mediation Center of the Pacific, Director of EPIC Ohana Conferencing, President of Hawaii Psychological Association, the Family Justice Alliance, and the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
Family Court; SCR 52 Task Force