Bill Text: HI HB1096 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Parentage.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-07 - Act 201, on 07/06/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1329). [HB1096 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB1096-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PARENTAGE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to require the department of health to convene a task force to recommend amendments to the Hawaii Revised Statutes to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights.
SECTION 2. (a) The department of health shall convene a task force to recommend amendments to the Hawaii Revised Statutes to update existing parentage laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood, and parental rights.
(b) The task force shall include the following members:
(1) The director of health, or the director's designee, who shall serve as chairperson; and
(2) A representative from the department of the attorney general.
(c) The director of health shall invite the following individuals to become members of the task force:
(1) A family court judge;
(2) A family law attorney;
(3) A representative of AF3IRM Hawaii;
(4) A representative of the department of health's sexual and gender minority working group;
(5) A representative of Ka Aha Mahu; and
(6) Any other member as recommended by the task force.
(d) The task force shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2022.
(e) The task force shall be dissolved on June 30, 2022.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Parentage;
Task Force; DOH
Description:
Requires the department of health to convene a task force to
recommend amendments to the Hawaii Revised Statutes to update existing parentage
laws that reflect outdated, cisheteronormative concepts of families, parenthood,
and parental rights. (SD1)
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