STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1423

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 10

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 10 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE JUDICIARY TO IMPLEMENT A PILOT FAMILY COURT PARENTING PLAN MODEL PROGRAM IN THE FIRST CIRCUIT FAMILY COURT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Judiciary to implement a pilot Family Court Parenting Plan Model Program in the First Circuit Family Court.

     The Judiciary and Oahu VOICES submitted comments.

     During interim hearings convened by the Committees on Human Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, it was recommended that a process, known as the Family Court Parenting Plan Model, should exist to assist parents to develop a parenting plan without and prior to Family Court intervention.  Further recommendations were made by a group of interested stakeholders regarding how this model should be implemented.  However, it was agreed that the model should be implemented as a pilot program first so that it can be evaluated and modified before determining whether to implement it on a statewide, mandatory basis.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 10 and recommend its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Public Housing and Judiciary and Labor,

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair

____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair