Repeals the law requiring a creditor collecting money under a garnishment process to furnish duplicate receipts to the garnishee.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 652-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is repealed.

["§652-14 Receipts to be given by creditor on penalty of forfeiture. Any creditor collecting money under garnishment process shall furnish duplicate receipts therefor to the garnishee, one of which receipts shall be delivered by the garnishee to the debtor.

No portion of any salary or wages withheld or sequestered shall be paid to any creditor unless such duplicate receipts are delivered to the person in whose hands the funds are sequestered or withheld, and any creditor failing to furnish such duplicate receipts shall forfeit any amounts taken without the furnishing by the creditor of the duplicate receipts, and the creditor shall be personally liable, to debtor, for the amounts."]

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.