CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REP. NO. 166-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                 , 2016

RE:    H.B. No. 1370

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

       C.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sirs:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate in H.B. No. 1370, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DIVORCE,"

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) to make direct payments of a member or retirant's benefits to the member or retirant's spouse or former spouse pursuant to a Hawaii domestic relations order.

     Your Committee on Conference amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2018; and

     (2)  Removing the appropriation to the Employees' Retirement System.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the managers of your Committee on Conference that is attached to this report, your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1370, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1370, H.D. 1, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the managers:

ON THE PART OF THE SENATE

ON THE PART OF THE HOUSE

____________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair	____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Co-Chair
____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Co-Chair	____________________________ JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Co-Chair
	____________________________ JARRETT KEOHOKALOLE, Co-Chair