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Judiciary committee advances bill to update Hawaii parentage law, removes donor-anonymity provision
Summary
The Senate Committee on Judiciary voted to pass SB 1231 with amendments that remove Part 10 (donor-anonymity provisions) and adopt Attorney General-recommended changes to coordinate probate and child-support provisions; advocates and opponents gave extended testimony for and against donor-identification rules.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary voted to pass SB 1231 on a recommendation to amend the measure, removing Part 10 and adopting a set of Attorney General–recommended technical changes to align Hawaii law with related probate and child-support procedures.
SB 1231 would repeal the state’s outdated parentage law and replace it with provisions largely drawn from the Uniform Parentage Act (2017). The committee’s amendment removes Part 10 — the section of the bill that drew the most public controversy because it would have codified donor-anonymity rules — and directs insertion of confidentiality language consistent with adoption record confidentiality and the Uniform Parentage Act’s section 806 where applicable.
The bill’s supporters said modernizing parentage law is…
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