Bill Text: HI SB2078 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Minors; Emergency Shelter; Consent

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-09 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JGO. [SB2078 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2078-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2075

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2078

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2078 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MINORS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow minors to give informed consent to emergency shelter and other services when a parent or guardian is either unavailable to consent or refuses to grant consent.

 

     Testimony is support of this measure was submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii, Hale Kipa, and the Hawaii Youth Services Network.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that minors are faced with the possibility of being homeless when they flee, voluntarily or involuntarily, from home.  At present, they are not allowed to enter an emergency shelter due to their age.  In some cases, when the parents are asked to consent to a minor being housed in a shelter, the parents refuse.  Your Committee also finds that it is in the best interests of the community to allow minors to be housed in emergency shelters rather than turned away.

 

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2078, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2078, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair