STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2912

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2480

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2480, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a Hawaii Hope Card Program within the Department of the Attorney General to issue cards verifying a person's long-term protective order.

The Department of the Attorney General submitted written comments on the measure.

Your Committee finds that hope cards will provide a more convenient method for protected individuals to prove that a protective order is in place. Your Committee notes that a hope card is not intended to replace an original copy of a protective order granted by a court.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount from $30,000 to an unspecified amount;

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2480, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2480, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair