Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2287, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to streamline the license suspension process initiated by the Child Support Enforcement Agency for failure to comply with an order of support, or a subpoena or warrant relating to a paternity or child support proceeding.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General. No testimony in opposition was received by your Committee.

Currently, section 576D-13, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires the Child Support Enforcement Agency to reinitiate the license suspension process from the beginning each time an obligor becomes delinquent on a repayment agreement that the obligor has entered into as a result of a prior license suspension action. Your Committee finds that this process is duplicative and causes delay in processing obligors for license suspension. Your Committee further finds that this measure will assist in making the child support enforcement process more efficient.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2287, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.