Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2287 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help children and families in single-parent situations receive child support payments in a timely and consistent manner by improving the enforcement policies of the Child Support Enforcement Agency (Agency). This bill allows the Agency to suspend the various state licenses of those individuals who have become delinquent in making payments even after entering into an agreement once notice was sent informing the individual of the license suspension process. The current policy requires the Agency to initiate the entire license suspension process again if the individual has entered into an agreement, causing unnecessary delay for families who receive the needed support.

The Attorney General testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2287, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2287, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.