CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 53

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 950

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

C.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 950, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSISTED COMMUNITY TREATMENT ORDERS,"

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 measure is to:

(1) Extend the time period that the Family Court may order continued assisted community treatment; and

(2) Reduce the time period that the Family Court needs to determine whether assisted community treatment should continue from one hundred eighty days to one hundred days.

Your Committee on Conference has amended this measure by:

(1) Authorizing psychiatrists or advanced practice registered nurses, after examination of a person for assisted community treatment indication, to request assistance from the Attorney General to file an assisted community treatment petition;

(2) Requiring the Family Court to set any subsequent hearing dates for an assisted community treatment petition as soon as possible;

(3) Authorizing the Family Court to use online hearings for assisted community treatment petitions;

(4) Extending the time period that the Family Court may order continued assisted community treatment to two years;

(5) Clarifying provision of notice requirements for assisted community treatment petitions;

(6) Authorizing any interested party to request assistance from the Attorney General to file a petition for an extension of assisted community treatment;

(7) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2023; and

(8) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 950, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 950, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA Chair	____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI Co-Chair
____________________________ KARL RHOADS Co-Chair	____________________________ DAVID A. TARNAS Co-Chair