STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1543

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   S.B. No. 1066

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, 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 is to update the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act originally adopted in 1997.

More specifically, this measure:

(1)  Adopts amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act proposed in 2001 by its authors, the Uniform Law Commission, that refined jurisdictional rules, clarified how a controlling order is determined and reconciled when multiple state orders are issued, distinguished court jurisdiction for support enforcement and for child custody purposes, provided guidance to state support enforcement agencies, covered foreign country support orders, and made technical amendments;

(2)  Updates the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act to reflect requirements of the Hague Convention of the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance to which the United States became a signatory in 2007; and

(3)  Provides procedures for registration, recognition, enforcement, and modifications of support orders from countries that are parties to the Hague Convention.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair