STAND. COM. REP. NO. 218

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1232

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1232 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend various sections of chapter 576D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to bring the Child Support Enforcement Agency into compliance with federal law.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee finds that recent amendments made to federal regulations require that all states provide Title IV-D services to tribal IV-D agencies and foreign countries as defined under federal regulations.  Failure to comply with this federal requirement would jeopardize federal funding of the Child Support Enforcement Agency and federal funding for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs.  Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to maintain eligibility for federal funding.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 1232, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1232, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair