STAND. COM. REP. NO.  944

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 162

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 162 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE FINANCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill it to make technical amendments to section 37-46, Hawaii Revised Statutes, regarding the transfer of nongeneral funds to general funds.

     For purposes of the public hearing, your Committee circulated a proposed H.D. 1 version that deletes the contents of this bill and inserts new provisions that comply with federal eligibility requirements for federal welfare and child support enforcement program funding.  Your Committee had amended the bill as proposed, to provide the authority for the Child Support Enforcement Agency to impose an annual $25 fee in those cases where no public assistance has been paid to the custodial parent and the collection for the case exceeds $500.

     The Department of the Attorney General supported this bill as amended.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 162, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 162, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair