Bill Text: HI SB529 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Parental Rights; Rape; Sexual Assault

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-09 - Act 253, 7/1/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1356). [SB529 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB529-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1015

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 529

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 529, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PARENTAL RIGHTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support survivors of rape or sexual assault by:

 

(1)  Prohibiting family courts from awarding custody of or visitation with a child to a natural parent who has been convicted of rape or sexual assault if the child was conceived as a result of that offense; and

 

(2)  Authorizing the family courts to terminate parental rights, with respect to a child, of a natural parent who has been convicted of rape or sexual assault if the child was conceived as a result of the rape or sexual assault.

 

     The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women and The Sex Abuse Treatment Center testified in support of this measure.

 

     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. 529, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair