Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Human Services and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 82 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to convene a task force to study and determine whether there should be amendments to current child support laws for activated military personnel.

Comments were received from the Judiciary.

Your Committees find that when income from activated military personnel decreases substantially, their child support payments are not automatically decreased, regardless of their decrease in pay. Your Committees further find that with the decease in pay and child support payment amounts remaining the same, many of the activated military personnel's current families have less to live on while families from previous relationships continue living without any of the hardships from the decease in pay.

Your Committees have amended this measure to include the Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, or any of the listed recipient's designees as recipients of certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs and Human Services and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 82, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 82, S.D. 1.