STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3290

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1891

H.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1891, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM RECOGNITION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CANADIAN DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDERS ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to adopt the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Commission to Promote Uniform Laws and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act has been enacted in California, Delaware, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Washington, and Wisconsin. The Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act is part of state, federal, and international efforts to recognize domestic-violence protection orders across jurisdictions. This measure will help Canadian visitors by allowing them to go to court in Hawaii to enforce a protective order rather than requiring them to return to Canada for that purpose.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1891, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair