STAND. COM. REP. NO. 992

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2023

RE: H.B. No. 950

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. 950, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Extend the time period that the Family Court may order continued assisted community treatment from one year to two years; 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 received testimony in support of this measure from the State Council on Mental Health and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Health and Hawaii Disability Rights Center.

Your Committee finds that this measure would support assisted community treatment, which is an important tool that helps individuals with behavioral health issues receive necessary medical treatment, including treatment over the individual's objection.

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. 950, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair