Bill Text: HI SB2505 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Feasibility Study; Temporary Restraining Orders; Electronic Application

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-14 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Herkes excused (1). [SB2505 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2505-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  985-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2505

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2505, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the family and district courts to issue a temporary restraining order in domestic abuse and harassment cases, respectively, based on sworn oral testimony communicated to the court by telephone, radio, or other means of electronic voice communication when exigent circumstances exist that prevent the applicant from appearing in person.

 

     The Judiciary, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Domestic Violence Action Center, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the Hawaii Women's Coalition opposed the measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with a study on the feasibility of allowing a court to issue a temporary restraining order based on sworn oral testimony communicated to the court by electronic measures when exigent circumstances exist that prevent the applicant from appearing in person.

 

     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. 2505, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2505, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair