Report Title:

CSEA annual fee

Description:

Provides the authority for the CSEA to impose an annual $25.00 fee against an absent parent in those cases where no public assistance has been paid to the custodial parent and collection for the case exceeds $500.00.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1244
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO THE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 576D-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§576D-5[]]  Fee for obtaining or enforcing nonpublic assistance order. (a)  The agency shall require the payment of a reasonable fee on the application of a person under section 576D-3(b)(3) who is not receiving public assistance for support of the child for assistance in obtaining or enforcing a child support order.  The payment and amount of the fee shall be in compliance with applicable federal regulations promulgated under Title IV-D.

(b)  In the case of an individual who has never received public assistance for the support of a child under Title IV-A and for whom the State has collected at least $500 of support, the agency shall impose an annual fee of $25 for each case in which Title IV-D services are furnished, which shall be retained by the State from support collected on behalf of the individual, but not from the first $500 so collected, and recovered from the absent parent."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST