STAND. COM. REP. NO.  300

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 1248

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1248 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to protect victims of rape or sexual assault and their children from the possibility of the attacker remaining in their lives by requiring family courts in Hawaii to terminate the parental rights of a natural parent who is convicted of rape or sexual assault that caused the conception of the child.

The American Association of University Women-Hawaii and the Big Island Adult Foster Home Operators supported this measure.

     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. 1248 and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair