STAND. COM. REP. NO.  35

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 801

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 801 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require:

(1)  Certain amounts of child support moneys collected by the Department of Human Services (DHS) for public assistance to a child to pass through to the family receiving the public assistance; and

(2)  DHS to disregard passed-through child support payments in determining the needs of an applicant or recipient of public assistance.

The DHS and Department of the Attorney General submitted comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date to January 1, 2075, to encourage further discussion.

     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. 801, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 801, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair