STAND. COM. REP. NO.  824-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1504

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1504, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Clarify that all child support orders are presumed to apply on a per child basis;

     (2)  Specify that a child support order shall automatically terminate when the obligee is no longer eligible to receive child support payments as to the particular child; and

     (3)  Amends the existing statutory process to request suspension, termination, or modification of a child support order to account for the foregoing automatic termination provisions.

Several concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.  A concerned individual testified in opposition to this measure.  The Department of the Attorney General provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting language specifying the automatic termination of a child support order when an obligee is no longer eligible to receive child support payments for a particular child;

     (2)  Deleting the amendment relating to requests for the suspension, termination, or modification of a child support order; 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 Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1504, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1504, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair