STAND. COM. REP. NO.  461

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 897

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 897, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure to update the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act to reflect the requirements of the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance.  This measure provides procedures for recognition, modification, and enforcement of interstate and international child and spousal support orders and determinations of parentage as required by federal law.

The Department of the Attorney General, Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to take effect upon approval; and

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment to correct a typographical error.

     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. 897, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 897, H.D. 2.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair