STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1366

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 223

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 223, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC GUARDIAN,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

(1)  Prohibit the Office of the Public Guardian from petitioning for its own appointment as guardian of an incapacitated person; and

 

(2)  Provide that the Office of the Public Guardian may be authorized to manage a ward's financial assets when no conservator has been appointed to protect the ward's estate.

 

     The Judiciary testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to:

 

(1)  Terminate the Office of the Public Guardian's authority to manage an incapacitated person's financial affairs if a conservator is appointed to protect the ward's estate; and

 

(2)  Make this measure effective upon its approval.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 223, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 223, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

 

 

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair