STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3841

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.C.R. No. 59

H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 59, H.D. 1, entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE ADOPTEE CITIZENSHIP ACT OF 2018,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to express support for the proposed Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2018, H.R. 5233; S. 2522.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i.

Your Committee finds that the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 allows foreign-born, adopted children of American citizens to acquire American citizenship automatically. Despite having been legally adopted by American citizens and having been raised in the United States, adoptees who were eighteen years of age or older on the effective date of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 did not automatically acquire American citizenship. The Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2018, currently pending in Congress, will provide American citizenship for these adoptees.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 59, H.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair