STAND. COM. REP. NO.  308-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2429

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2429 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NONREPORTING ON CHILD ABUSE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect children from harm and ensure that abuses are reported to the proper authorities by increasing the penalty for the nonreporting of the abuse or neglect of a child from a petty misdemeanor to a class C felony.

 

     Patients Without Time, IMUAlliance, and several concerned individuals supported this measure.  The Hawaii Psychological Association, We Are One, Inc., and one concerned individual opposed this measure.   

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2429, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2429, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair