Bill Text: HI SB2368 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Child Custody; Grandparent Visitation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-16 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on JUD with none voting no (0) and Carroll, Ching, Manahan, Nishimoto excused (4). [SB2368 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2368-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2549

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2368

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2368 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD VISITATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Permit the Family Court to award reasonable visitation rights to grandparents, if, among other things, denial of visitation would cause significant harm to the child;

 

     (2)  Establish a rebuttable presumption that the parent's decision regarding grandparents' visitation rights is in the best interests of the child; and

 

     (3)  Establish factors for the court to consider when determining significant harm to the child.

 

     Your Committee finds that the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is valuable in a child's development into adulthood, and when grandparents provide a positive influence, they should be allowed visitation.  Your Committee also finds that courts should be provided with objective criteria to evaluate whether the granting of grandparents' visitation rights are in the best interests of the child.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2368 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair