STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2168

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2393

S.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 S.B. No. 2393 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 enact 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 Legislation. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that Canada is the second largest international market for Hawaii. Canadian visitors spend a great amount of time in Hawaii during the winter months and many Canadians own real estate throughout the islands. However, Canadians with active domestic violence protective orders currently lack sufficient protection while visiting Hawaii. Your Committee believes that Canadian visitors traveling to Hawaii should be protected by valid protection orders issued in Canada. This measure will assist the State in protecting victims of domestic violence by enacting the Uniform Recognition and Enforcement of Canadian Domestic-Violence Protection Orders Act.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting language to provide a penalty for a person who violates a valid Canadian order for protection;

(2) Inserting a cross reference to section 581-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to foreign protective orders, for the purposes of conformity; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

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 S.B. No. 2393, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2393, S.D. 1, 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