CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 17

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2015

 

RE:    H.B. No. 538

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir and Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,"

 

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

 

     The purpose of this bill is to assist victims of domestic violence by:

 

(1)  Requiring all wireless telecommunications service providers to release victims of documented domestic violence from shared wireless plans involving their abuser, upon written request with evidence of domestic violence as documented by a valid police report; and

 

(2)  Authorizing the family court to issue an order requiring wireless telecommunications service providers to:

 

(A)  Transfer the billing authority and all rights to the wireless numbers of a shared wireless plan to a petitioner, provided that the petitioner is not the account holder; or

 

(B)  Remove or release a petitioner from a shared wireless plan and assign a substitute telephone number or numbers.

 

     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Permitting the use of an order for protection granted pursuant to chapter 586, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or a signed affidavit from a licensed medical or mental health care provider, employee of a court acting within the scope of their employment, or social worker as documentary evidence of domestic violence; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to upon approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

 

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

 

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Co-Chair

 

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GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Co-Chair

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Co-Chair

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Co-Chair