Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2249 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify that information maintained by the Child Support Enforcement Agency may be disclosed to authorized persons who are directly involved with the administration and implementation of a program approved under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure from the Department of the Attorney General, including the Child Support Enforcement Agency, and the Department of Human Services.

Your Committee finds that this is a housekeeping measure concerning Title IV-E determinations by the Department of Human Services. This measure would facilitate the Department's determinations of eligibility for federal funds for foster care maintenance and adoption assistance and would provide additional information about parents whose children are placed in the Department's foster custody.

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. 2249 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.