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 S.B. No. 2250 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.

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

The current definition of "compliance with an order of support" includes the situation where an obligor enters into a written agreement after being notified that the license suspension process has been initiated. Because of this definition, when an obligor becomes delinquent in making payment under the written agreement, sections 576D-13(a) and (b) require that the license suspension process be initiated again with notice and opportunity for the obligor to request a hearing or request to enter into another payment agreement.

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 S.B. No. 2250 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.