Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2385 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow state and federal agencies that administer programs under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act to access vital statistics records maintained by the Department of Health's (DOH) Office of Health and Status Monitoring.

DOH, the Department of the Attorney General, and Department of Human Services testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to assist the Child Support Enforcement Agency in its efforts to enforce child support and comply with federal requirements.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style and clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2385, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2385, H.D. 1.