RELATING TO FAMILY SAFETY.

Summary

HB 2408 redesigns Hawaii’s child‑protection and family‑court system. It modernizes what counts as harm, adds coercive control and economic abuse as forms of domestic violence, and sets new rules for courts, child‑welfare agencies, and financial institutions to better safeguard children, neurodivergent youth, and reproductive privacy. The law also declares 2027 the “Year of Resilience, Safety, and Survivor Justice” and creates a dedicated family‑violence docket with required judicial training.

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