STAND

STAND. COM. REP. 2602

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 1268

S.D. 1

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1268 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make clarifying amendments to the child support enforcement law.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.

This measure:

(1) Provides the Child Support Enforcement Agency (agency) with authority to issue income withholding orders in situations where the obligor or obligee makes a request to the agency for income withholding;

(2) Makes consistent the language regarding the state case registry and administrative orders of the agency with orders issued by the Family Court; and

(3) Requires the orders of the agency to include a statement that the obligor is required to keep the agency informed of access to medical insurance, and allows the agency to notify the employer to terminate the insurance by specified means.

Your Committee adopted the following amendments suggested by the Department of the Attorney General:

(1) To provide authority to either parent to apply for services from the agency;

(2) To clarify that information obtained by the agency may be disclosed at an administrative hearing conducted for child support purposes;

(3) To add "personal delivery" as a means of sending notice; and

(4) To include language in administrative orders that requires the non-custodial parent to keep the agency informed of whether he or she has access to medical insurance coverage.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1268, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1268, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

		____________________________ COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair