STAND. COM. REP. NO.  124-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2034

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2034 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to remove the statute of limitations for criminal and civil actions arising from sexual assault in the first and second degrees or continuous sexual assault of a minor under the age of fourteen years.

The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Hawaii State Democratic Women's Caucus, Hawaii Women's Coalition, and numerous concerned citizens supported the bill.  The Department of the Attorney General, IMUAlliance, and a concerned individual commented on the bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

     Your Committee respectfully requests that should your Committee on Judiciary choose to consider this measure, the Chair of Human Services be given the opportunity to assist with working out concerns brought up regarding the language of the measure as it moves forward.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2034, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2034, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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MELE CARROLL, Chair