Bill Text: HI HB1244 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Child Custody; Grandparent Visitation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll, Coffman, Hanohano, Har, Kawakami, Ward excused (6). [HB1244 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2013-HB1244-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 475
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 1244
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1244 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to further establish grandparents' visitation rights by:
(1) Authorizing the court to award reasonable visitation rights to grandparents if the denial of reasonable visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child;
(2) Establishing the presumption that a parent's decision regarding visitation is in the best interest of the child;
(3) Allowing the presumption to be rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence that denial of reasonable visitation rights would cause significant harm to the child; and
(4) Authorizing the court to consider various factors in awarding visitation to grandparents.
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 H.B. No. 1244 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair |
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