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Committee moves Hawaii child-advocate bill to attorney general’s office, sets salary and passes with amendments
Summary
The House Committee on Legislative Management voted to transfer HB 1805 (child welfare) to the Attorney General’s Office, accept AG-recommended changes narrowing the bill’s jurisdictional language, set the child advocate salary at 90% of the Department of Health deputy director, and passed the measure with committee amendments.
The House Committee on Legislative Management voted Feb. 18 to transfer HB 1805, a bill relating to child welfare oversight, to the Attorney General’s Office and to adopt amendments intended to narrow the scope of the child advocate’s jurisdiction.
The committee chair said the committee would “put this in the attorney general’s office,” accept the attorney general’s suggested amendments on the definition and scope of agency jurisdiction, and “set the salary at 90% of the deputy director of the…
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