STAND. COM. REP. NO.  786

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2023

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1058

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1058 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADOPTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require an adopted individual to be considered a child of both the adopted and natural parents for the sole purpose of determining familial relationships, including for purposes of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and one individual.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

      Your Committee finds that adoption alters how individuals are related, which may disqualify an otherwise qualified successor.  This measure would allow an adopted individual and the individual's natural family to continue having the same familial relationship for the purposes of successorship.  This measure does not affect the blood quantum requirements under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, or the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands' administrative rules.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1058, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1058, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair