Report Title:

Administrative hearings

 

Description:

Clarifies that parties have 30 days to request a hearing whenever modification has been initiated through the administrative process. Allows the CSEA to request an administrative hearing.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1245

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 576E-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§576E-6  Request for hearing; how made.  (a)  Except as provided in subsection (b), any party who is aggrieved by the proposed order of the agency may, within ten days of service of a notice described in section 576E-5, obtain a hearing by sending a written request for hearing to the agency at the address from which the notice was sent.

     (b)  In the case of a proposed order to modify child support resulting from the agency's [periodic] review of support orders, a party aggrieved by the proposed order may request a hearing within thirty days of service of a notice described in section 576E-5.

     (c)  The agency, on its own behalf, may request a hearing after the commencement of an administrative proceeding pursuant to section 576E-5.

     [(c)] (d)  Notice of the hearing under this section shall be served in accordance with section 576E-4."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST