Bill Text: HI SB1120 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Maximum Age for Commitment to a Youth Correctional Facility
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - The committee on PSM deferred the measure. [SB1120 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1120-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO THE MAXIMUM AGE FOR COMMITMENT TO A YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 352-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§352-8 Guardianship [and custody]
of the person committed. [(a)] Notwithstanding any law to the
contrary, the director shall be the guardian of every youth committed to or
received at the Hawaii youth correctional facilities. The director shall have
all the powers and duties of a natural guardian of the youth; provided that the
director shall not be liable in damages for the tortious acts committed by the
youth.
[(b) The director shall have custody of any
committed person who is eighteen years of age or older for the period provided
for by the court.]"
SECTION 2. Section 352-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§352-9 Period committed. (a)
All persons committed to the Hawaii youth correctional facilities shall be
committed for the period of their minority or as otherwise ordered by the
court. Such persons may be placed on furlough or parole if deemed
appropriate. The power to discharge a person committed to a youth correctional
facility is reserved to the director; provided that the director shall give a
thirty-day notice of such intended discharge to the appropriate court and to
the prosecutor's office of the appropriate county. Prior court approval for
furlough, parole, or discharge of all minors, committed by the family court to
a youth correctional facility for the period of their minority or otherwise,
shall be obtained when such is specifically required in the commitment order.
In any case, no person [nineteen] eighteen years or older shall
be incarcerated in a youth correctional facility.
(b) In those cases where the term of
commitment to a youth correctional facility extends beyond the person's [nineteenth]
eighteenth birthday, the person shall be placed on juvenile parole
pursuant to the original family court order for the balance of the person's
term of commitment; provided that such term does not extend beyond the person's
twentieth birthday unless earlier terminated."
SECTION 3. Section 352-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows:
"(b) In the case of a person under [nineteen]
eighteen years of age, such designated employee may:
(1) Notify the director or the director's designated agent of such alleged violation and, if the director issues a written order to such effect, take such person into custody and place such person in such appropriate youth correctional facility as may be designated in such order until determinations as to such person's further care and treatment are made. In the event of retaking for an alleged violation of parole, the director or the director's agent shall notify the person, and the person's parent, guardian, or custodian of the right to legal counsel and to appeal the issuance and execution of such order. The office of juvenile parole shall hold a hearing within thirty days after the person's return to determine whether parole should be revoked. The juvenile parole office staff shall render reasonable aid to the person in preparation for the hearing.
(2) Take such person into custody and place the person in an appropriate youth correctional facility until determinations as to such person's further care and treatment are made by the department if such employee has reason to believe that permitting such person to remain in the person's own home or other place within the community would be dangerous to the person or to the community or that such person is about to flee the jurisdiction of the department. Such employee, at the time of taking such person into custody, shall advise such person as to the specific terms and conditions of the person's parole or furlough which the person is alleged to have violated and of the person's right to legal counsel and appeal. Provisions regarding possible parole revocation shall apply as enumerated in paragraph (1).
(c) In the case of a [nineteen-year-old]
person eighteen or nineteen years of age, such [a] designated
employee may:
(1) Take the person into custody and place the person in an appropriate adult correctional facility if the alleged violation constitutes a crime and the director has been notified and subsequently issued a written order to that effect. In the event of retaking for such an alleged violation of parole, the director or the director's agent shall notify the person of the right to legal counsel and to appeal the issuance and execution of such order. The office of juvenile parole shall hold a hearing within thirty days after the person's incarceration in an adult facility to determine whether parole should be revoked. The juvenile parole office staff shall render reasonable aid to the person in preparation for the hearing.
(2) Notify the director of an alleged violation of parole. The director may petition the family court for an ex parte order based on the alleged violation to take the person into custody and place the person in an appropriate adult correctional facility. The person shall be notified of the issuance and execution of such a court order and of the right to legal counsel and appeal. A juvenile parole office hearing shall be held within thirty days after a person's placement in an adult facility to determine whether parole shall be revoked."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Maximum Age for Commitment to a Youth Correctional Facility
Description:
Eliminates the incarceration of eighteen year olds in a youth correctional facility.
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