Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2385, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow the Hawaii's Child Support Enforcement Agency, through the offices of county corporations counsel, county attorneys, or the Attorney General, and the federal agency providing funding and oversight for Hawaii's child support enforcement system to have direct access to public health statistics records maintained by the Department of Health's Office of Health Status Monitoring.

Testimony in favor of the measure was submitted by the Department of Human Services, Department of Health, and Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that to comply with federal regulations, access to vital statistics records maintained by the Department of Health's Office of Health Status Monitoring must be given to the state Child Support Enforcement Agency and its designated auditing federal agency. Access to such records is necessary to ensure that appropriate action is taken when securing support for children and to satisfy federal reporting and data reliability requirements.

A technical, nonsubstantive amendment was made for the purpose of style and clarity.

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