STAND. COM. REP. NO.  40-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1936

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1936 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FAMILY COURT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to develop standards of practice and establish a child custody evaluator registry to assist the court in awarding custody in child custody cases.

 

     The National Association of Social Workers - Hawaii Chapter and several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  A concerned individual supported this bill with amendments.  The Judiciary offered comments.

 

     Your Committee wishes to clarify its intent to continue to allow social workers employed by the Judiciary to be appointed by the court as child custody evaluators, while exempting them from the annual declaration and registration requirements established by this bill.  As such, your Committee has amended this bill by excluding social workers employed by the Judiciary from the annual declaration and registration requirements for child custody evaluators.

 

     Your Committee has further amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 1936, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1936, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair