Bill Text: HI SB22 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Minors.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-12-10 - Carried over to 2022 Regular Session. [SB22 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SB22-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MINORS.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-17.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) A minor may consent to no cost emergency shelter and related services if the minor understands the benefits, responsibilities, risks, and limits of the shelter and services, and the minor agrees to adhere to the provider's rules and cooperate and participate in those services recommended by the provider; provided that:
(1) The provider has not, despite reasonable efforts, been able to contact the minor's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian;
(2) The provider has
made contact with the minor's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian, and
the minor's parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian has refused to give
consent and, based on the information available to the provider, the provider
reasonably believes that the minor would incur harm, or would be subject to
threatened harm, if the minor returned immediately to the home of the parent,
legal guardian, or legal custodian; [or]
(3) The minor has
refused to provide contact information for the minor's parent, legal guardian,
or legal custodian, and the provider reasonably believes that the minor would
incur harm, or would be subject to threatened harm, if the minor returned
immediately to the home of the parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian[.];
and
(4) The provider is
coordinating with the department's child welfare services branch."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Emergency Shelter; Minors; Consent; Providers; Child Welfare Services
Description:
Expands the circumstances where a minor may consent to no cost emergency shelter and related services to include cases where the provider is coordinating with child welfare services. (SD1)
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