STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3007

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1504

       H.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1504, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify that all child support orders are presumed to apply on a per child basis.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from three individuals.

     Your Committee finds that a child support order for multiple children is currently issued as one aggregate amount.  Your Committee recognizes the sentiment expressed in testimony on this measure that it is onerous for parents to have to complete and submit paperwork to amend their child support order when a child turns eighteen and the number of children for which child support is owed decreases.

     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 H.B. No. 1504, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading 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