STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1005

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1161

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 1161 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Services to provide a written report to the court, which the court must then provide to the parties two days prior to a hearing in a case where there are allegations of domestic abuse.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the Department of Human Services.  The Judiciary and Legal Aid Society of Hawaii took no position on the bill but offered comments. 

     Your Committee finds that requiring the court to provide a report to the parties on the disposition on the referral forty eight hours prior to the hearing.  Accordingly, your Committee amended the bill to provide that written or oral disposition be provided two days prior to the hearing if possible.  Your Committee also amended the bill to provide that the report of the disposition be noted on the court order.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1161, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1161, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair