Bill Text: HI SB2795 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Child Protective Act; Definition of "aggravated circumstances"

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-15 - (S) Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB2795 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2795-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2219

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2795

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2795 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF AGGRAVATED CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE CHILD PROTECTIVE ACT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure that the definition of "aggravated circumstances" in chapter 587A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is consistent with recent changes to the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, the Department of the Attorney General, Family Programs Hawai‘i, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Administration for Children and Families has informed the State that recent changes to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2010 need to be incorporated into chapter 587A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Child Protective Act.  These changes will allow the Department of Human Services to continue to receive federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act funding of approximately $140,000, which is used to provide family strengthening services and child death review.

 

     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. 2795 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair