HI SB3331

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

Modernizes statutory 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 mental health diagnosis cannot justify or excuse maltreatment including physical force, restraint, humiliation, or isolation.

Expands the definition of "coercive control" to include litigation abuse, digital abuse, economic abuse, reproductive coercion, and child manipulation, and recognizes it as domestic abuse requiring no physical injury.

Requires judges, guardians ad litem, custody evaluators, child welfare workers, law enforcement, and mediators to receive training on trauma dynamics, coercive control, litigation abuse, and related topics.