STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2794

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2746

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2746, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the imposition of a fine on employers who fail to comply with various child support provisions.

Specifically, this measure authorizes a maximum fine of $1,000 to be imposed on any employer who:

(1) Fails to comply with a court or administrative order to assign the income of an employee for payment of child support;

(2) Fails to comply with an administrative order to withhold income of an employee for payment of child support; or

(3) Refuses to hire a prospective employee, discharges an employee, or takes other disciplinary action against an employee, based upon an order or notice to withhold child support. This measure also repeals the criminal penalties for these specific violations.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the requirements imposed by this measure are necessary to maintain federal welfare funding and federal funding of child support enforcement programs.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2746, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair