THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES

Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair

Senator Gil Riviere, Vice Chair

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:	Tuesday, February 02, 2016
TIME:	1:15pm
PLACE:	Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

A M E N D E D  A G E N D A

SB 2385 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO BEVERAGES FOR CHILDREN. Establishes restrictions on sugar-sweetened beverages and other beverages served in child care facilities.	HMS, CPH
SB 532 Status & Testimony	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO MOOKINI LUAKINI, INC. Appropriates funds to Mookini Luakini, Inc. to host children's day in Kohala.	HMS, WAM
SB 2227 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES. Makes an appropriation for subsidies for the preschool open doors program.	HMS, WAM
SB 2340 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Appropriates additional funds for outreach to homeless individuals and families, as well as homeless unaccompanied youth.  Appropriates funds to the department of human services.	HMS, WAM
SB 2869 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS UNDER THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT. Amends the Child Protective Act to allow the Department of Human Services to access criminal history records without consent of individuals identified as alleged perpetrators of harm or threatened harm to a child, and individuals identified as adult household members living in the family home with the alleged victim child.	HMS, JDL
SB 2160 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT. Expands the definition of "aggravated circumstances", as used in chapter 587A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Child Protective Act, to include situations where the parent is a repeat criminal offender of specific crimes; has been repeatedly incarcerated, resulting in the child's placement in foster care; has placed the child or a sibling of the child in foster care more than once; had parental rights voluntarily or involuntarily terminated; failed to comply with pre-permanency or permanency requirements; has physically abused or neglected the child; or has engaged in human trafficking involving the child or another child of the parent or has solicited, aided, abetted, attempted, or conspired to engage in human trafficking of the child or another child of the parent.  Requires parents to complete any court ordered service plan before being reunified with their child.	HMS, JDL [Measure deleted on 01-29-16]
SB 2811 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO PARENTAL RIGHTS. Provides that a parent's rights may be terminated if the court determines, by clear and convincing evidence, that the child was conceived during an act of rape or sexual assault creating a presumption that termination of parental rights is in the best interest of the child.	HMS, JDL [Measure added on 01-29-16]
SB 2873 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO ORDERS FOR IMMEDIATE PROTECTION. Amends section 346-231, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to address inconsistencies in statutory requirements regarding orders for immediate protection; and allows the Department of Human Services discretion when to seek an order for immediate protection of vulnerable adults.	HMS, JDL [Measure added on 01-29-16]
SB 2879 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO FOSTER CHILDREN. Updates the wording from "foster boarding home" to "resource family home" and "foster parents" to "resource caregivers"; establishes qualified immunity for resource caregivers and child caring institutions; adds the requirement that resource caregivers and child care institutions use the reasonable and prudent parent standard when authorizing children in foster care to participate in activities; and changes the age from sixteen to fourteen years of age for children in foster care to be involved in their foster care plans.	HMS, JDL [Measure added on 01-29-16]

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

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Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland

Chair