STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1458-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2873

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2873 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ORDERS FOR IMMEDIATE PROTECTION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to promote the health and safety of vulnerable adults who require immediate protection from abuse by authorizing the Department of Human Services to exercise other remedial options, as enumerated in section 346-228, Hawaii Revised Statutes, when upon investigation the Department determines that court intervention is not necessary.

The Department of Human Services supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2873 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair