STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1020-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2310

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2310 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DOMESTIC ABUSE PROTECTIVE ORDERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit the granting of mutual protective orders unless separate petitions are filed with the court and reasonable notice of the filing is provided.

 

     The Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Department of the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu, Domestic Violence Action Center, Hawaii Women's Coalition, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, Hawaii State Coalition Against Domestic Violence, American Association of University Women in Hawaii, and two individuals supported this measure.  An individual provided comments.

 

     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 S.B. No. 2310 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair