Report Title:

Children

Description:

Requires identification of child being left at safe haven as well as person leaving child to be presented at time the child is being left at the safe haven.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	3396
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to children.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 587D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[§587D-2]  Unharmed newborn children left at hospitals, fire stations, or police stations, or with emergency services personnel; avoidance of prosecution.  A person may leave a newborn child with the personnel of a hospital, fire station, or police station, or emergency services personnel without being subject to prosecution for abandonment of a child pursuant to section 709‑902; provided that:

     (1)  The newborn child was born within seventy-two hours of being left at the hospital, fire station, or police station, or with emergency services personnel as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty; [and]

     (2)  The newborn child is left in an unharmed condition; and

(3) Identification of the identity of the child and the person leaving the child is presented at the time the child is left at the hospital, fire station, or police station, or with emergency services personnel.

Identification of both the child and the person leaving the child shall be transmitted to the department of health."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

INTRODUCED BY:

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