587A-42 Educational, medical, dental, and recreational needs.
§587A-42 Educational, medical, dental, and recreational needs. Upon the first day of placement, a child’s resource family shall have the authority, for the child placed in the resource family’s care: (1) To consent to routine educational and recreational needs and activities, except for purposes regulated under title 8, chapters 60 and 61, of the Hawaii […]
587A-43 Child protective review panel.
§587A-43 Child protective review panel. (a) The department shall establish a child protective review panel to review each case of child abuse or neglect that leads to near fatality or death as a result of acts or omissions of the child’s legal caretaker. Based upon its review, the panel shall submit a report of its […]
587D-1 Definitions.
§587D-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Department” means the department of human services. “Emergency services personnel” shall have the same meaning as defined in section 78-52. “Firefighter” means a member of a fire department whose principal duties are to prevent and fight fires. “Fire station” means a building for […]
587D-2 Unharmed newborn children left at hospitals, fire stations, or police stations, or with emergency services personnel; avoidance of prosecution.
§587D-2 Unharmed newborn children left at hospitals, fire stations, or police stations, or with emergency services personnel; avoidance of prosecution. A person may leave a newborn child with the personnel of a hospital, fire station, or police station, or emergency services personnel without being subject to prosecution for abandonment of a child pursuant to section […]
587D-3 Safe place for newborns.
§587D-3 Safe place for newborns. (a) The personnel of a hospital, fire station, or police station, or emergency services personnel may receive a newborn child; provided that the newborn child was born within seventy-two hours of being left at the hospital, fire station, or police station, or with emergency services personnel as determined within a […]
587D-4 Reporting.
§587D-4 Reporting. Within twenty-four hours of receiving an unharmed newborn child under section 587D-3, the personnel of the hospital, fire station, or police station, or emergency services personnel shall inform the department that a newborn child has been left at the premises; provided that the department shall not be informed until the person leaving the […]
587D-5 Immunity.
§587D-5 Immunity. (a) A hospital with responsibility for performing duties under this chapter, any health care provider, or hospital personnel working at the hospital, a fire station and any firefighter or fire personnel, a police station and any police officer or police personnel, and emergency services personnel acting in good faith in receiving a newborn […]
587D-6 Authority to reunite; placement.
§587D-6 Authority to reunite; placement. (a) Upon receiving custody of a newborn child who has been discharged from a hospital that received the newborn child pursuant to section 587D-3, the department may reunite the newborn child with the newborn’s parents. (b) The department may: (1) Search for relatives of the newborn child as a placement […]
587D-7 Status of child.
§587D-7 Status of child. For purposes of proceedings under this chapter and adoption proceedings, a newborn child left at a hospital, fire station, or police station, or with emergency services personnel under section 587D-2 shall be considered an abandoned child. [L Sp 2007, c 7, pt of §2]
588-1 Children’s justice program; establishment, purpose.
§588-1 Children’s justice program; establishment, purpose. (a) There is established a children’s justice program within the judiciary. The mission of the program is to provide for the special needs of children as witnesses by promoting coordination for appropriate investigation, treatment, and legal processes, thereby reducing and preventing unnecessary trauma to children and ensuring justice for […]