Report Title:

Sexual Assault; Marriage License Fee; Special Fund Created

Description:

Creates the sexual assault prevention special fund; raises the marriage license fee for deposit into the fund. Directs the department of health to use moneys from the fund for sexual assault prevention programs.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

250

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO SEXUAL ASSAULT.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 321, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§321- Sexual assault prevention special fund. (a) There is established within the state treasury a special fund to be known as the sexual assault prevention special fund, to be administered and expended by the department of health.

(b) The proceeds of the special fund shall be reserved for use by the department of health to fund sexual abuse prevention programs, including grants or purchases of service, consistent with chapters 42F and 103F. These proceeds shall be used for new or existing programs.

(c) The special fund shall consist of a portion of the fees remitted pursuant to section 572-5, interest and investment earnings, grants, donations, and contributions from private or public sources. All realizations of the special fund shall be subject to the conditions specified in subsection (b).

(d) The department of health shall submit an annual report to the legislature at least twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session that shall include an accounting of the receipts of and expenditures from the special fund."

SECTION 2. Section 572-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

"(a) The department of health shall appoint, and at its pleasure remove, one or more suitable persons as agents authorized to grant marriage licenses under this chapter in each judicial circuit. The agents may issue licenses from any state facility when deemed necessary by the director. Any agent appointed under this subsection and receiving an application for a marriage license shall collect from the applicant for the license [$60,] ___ of which the agent, except those provided for in subsection (b), shall retain $9 for the agent's benefit and compensation and shall remit $51 to the director of health. Upon the receipt of remittances under this subsection, the director of health shall deposit:

(1) $32 for each license issued to the credit of the general fund of the State;

(2) $4.50 for each license issued to the credit of the spouse and child abuse special account established under section 346-7.5;

(3) $4.50 for each license issued to the credit of the spouse and child abuse special account established under section 601-3.6; [and]

(4) $10 for each license issued to the credit of the Hawaii birth defects special fund established under section 321-426[.]; and

(5) $ for each license issued to the credit of the sexual assault prevention special fund established under section 321- .

(b) The department may appoint, as regular employees under the civil service and classification laws, the number of suitable persons as agents authorized to grant marriage licenses for whom provision has been made in the general appropriation act. In the case of these agents, the full amount collected from applicants shall be remitted to the director of health. Upon the receipt of remittances under this subsection, the director of health shall deposit:

(1) $41 for each license issued to the credit of the general fund of the State;

(2) $4.50 for each license issued to the credit of the spouse and child abuse special account established under section 346-7.5;

(3) $4.50 for each license issued to the credit of the spouse and child abuse special account established under section 601-3.6; [and]

(4) $10 for each license issued to the credit of the Hawaii birth defects special fund established under 321-426[.]; and

(5) $ for each license issued to the credit of the sexual assault prevention special fund established under section 321- ."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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