STAND. COM. REP. NO.  945

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 Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1066, S.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 to comply with the requirements of the Hague Convention of the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance.  This measure establishes procedures for registration, recognition, enforcement, and modification of support orders from countries that are parties to the Hague Convention.

The Department of the Attorney General and the Commission to Promote Uniform Legislation supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying that a support order or income withholding order issued outside of the State is registered and enforceable in this State upon filing in Family Court; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1066, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair