STAND. COM. REP. NO. 800
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2013
RE: H.B. No. 1342
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1342, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEBT COLLECTION,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Establishing the Civil Recoveries Fund, into which will be deposited an unspecified percentage of moneys collected by the Attorney General for delinquent accounts turned over for collection by any executive department, executive agency, or the Judiciary, and legislative appropriations;
(2) Authorizing the Attorney General to use the moneys in the Civil Recoveries Fund for expenditures relating to the collection of delinquent accounts on behalf of executive departments, executive agencies, and the Judiciary;
(3) Authorizing executive departments, executive agencies, or the Judiciary to turn over their delinquent accounts of more than 90 days past due to the Attorney General for collection;
(4) Specifying that after the deposit of an unspecified percentage of moneys recovered into the Civil Recoveries Fund, the remainder of moneys collected shall be returned to the appropriate executive department, executive agency, or the Judiciary; and
(5) Requiring the Attorney General to submit a report on the accounting of the receipts and expenditures of the Civil Recoveries Fund to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of each regular session.
The Department of Budget and Finance commented on this measure.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the due date of the report that the Attorney General must submit to the Legislature, to no later than September 1 of each year;
(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and
(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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. 1342, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1342, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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