STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2870

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2177

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

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. 2177, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COLLECTION OF RESTITUTION FOR CRIME VICTIMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish standards and procedures for income withholding for purposes of enforcing restitution orders.

 

The measure also appropriates funds to the Department of the Attorney General to enhance its ability to collect restitution, including the hiring of any necessary staff.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Prosecuting Attorney of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General submitted written comments on the measure.

 

     Your Committee finds that the standards and procedures established by the measure, with respect to income withholding for purposes of enforcing restitution orders, would not impose any additional burden upon employers than what is already required of them under the child support enforcement provisions of Chapter 576D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or the garnishment provisions of Chapter 652, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2177, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2177, S.D. 2.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair