REPORT TITLE:
Incompetent Persons


DESCRIPTION:
Requires a reckless act to commit offense of endangering the
welfare of an incompetent person.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO INCOMPETENT PERSONS.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Section 709-905, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
 2 amended by amending subsection (1) to read as follows:
 
 3      "(1)  A person commits the offense of endangering the
 
 4 welfare of an incompetent person if [he knowingly] the person
 
 5 recklessly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the
 
 6 physical or mental welfare of a person who is unable to care for
 
 7 himself because of physical or mental disease, disorder, or
 
 8 defect."
 
 9      SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed.
 
10 New statutory material is underscored.
 
11      SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval,
 
12 and shall apply to offenses that occur on or after the effective
 
13 date of this Act.
 
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15                              INTRODUCED BY:______________________