HI HB2408

Designates calendar year 2027 as the "Year of Resilience, Safety, and Survivor Justice" with state commitments to uplift survivor voices, strengthen family court practices, and invest in trauma-informed services.

Modernizes definitions of "child abuse or neglect" and "harm" to include emotional, psychological, and dignity-based harm without requiring visible injury, physical marks, or medical confirmation.

Establishes that a child's disability, neurodivergence, autism, ADHD, or behavioral challenges cannot justify or excuse maltreatment including physical force, humiliation, isolation, or coercion.

Expands the definition of "coercive control" to include litigation abuse, digital abuse, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion, and recognizes it as domestic abuse for protective orders and custody determinations.

Requires mandatory training on trauma dynamics, coercive control, and emotional abuse for judges, guardians ad litem, custody evaluators, child welfare workers, law enforcement, and mediators.