STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 317

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 675

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 675 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to strengthen and improve the operations and administration of the State Child Support Enforcement Agency.

Specifically this measure:

(1) Complies with federal statutory requirements relating to the issuance of, the calculation of income withholding for, obligor and obligee duties under, and enforcement issues relating to or arising under, a child support order; and

(2) Streamlines the child support enforcement process administered by the Child Support Enforcement Agency with respect to service of process, notice relating to the termination of income withholding for child support orders, and identification of the type of information that may be disclosed at an administrative hearing conducted for child support purposes.

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

Your Committee finds that this measure is designed to improve and streamline the operations of the Child Support Enforcement Agency with respect to the child support and child support enforcement process in Hawaii so that it is satisfies applicable federal statutory requirements. Compliance with these requirements is critical to maintaining the State's eligibility for federal welfare funding and federal funding of child support enforcement programs.

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 S.B. No. 675 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair