Bill Text: HI SCR5 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging The Establishment Of Drop-in Centers For Unaccompanied Homeless Youth.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-20 - Referred to HMS/HOU/PSM, WAM. [SCR5 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SCR5-Introduced.html
|
THE SENATE |
S.C.R. NO. |
5 |
|
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
|
|
|
STATE OF HAWAII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
||
SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
Urging the establishment of drop-in centers for unaccompanied homeless youth.
WHEREAS, the National Conference of State Legislatures reports that forty-six percent of runaway and homeless youth reported being physically abused, thirty-eight percent reported being emotionally abused, and seventeen percent reported being forced into unwanted sexual activity by a family or household member; and
WHEREAS, state licensing laws require that youth under the age of eighteen must be accompanied by an adult to be admitted to any shelter where an adult is present; and
WHEREAS, unaccompanied homeless youth ages ten to eighteen need the protection of a drop-in center that is available twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2017, the House of Representatives concurring, that the counties are urged to work in collaboration with the State to open a twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week drop-in center for unaccompanied homeless youth in each county no later than July 1, 2018; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this body urges the opening of a second drop-in center in the County of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu no later than January 1, 2019; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and the members of all County Councils.
|
|
OFFERED BY: |
_____________________________ |
|
|
|
|
Drop-In Centers; Unaccompanied Homeless Youth
