STAND. COM. REP. NO. 489

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 888

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 888 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend section 576D-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to an employer's duty to report new hires, to bring the Child Support Enforcement Agency into compliance with federal law.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committee finds that the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011 amended the Social Security Act by adding a definition of the type of employees that are to be reported to the state directory of new hires.  This change went into effect on April 21, 2012, and requires that all states comply with this new federal mandate by including new hire reporting language.  Accordingly, this measure amends section 576D-16, Hawaii Revised Statutes, by adding a definition of new hires, as required under federal law, to include an employee who has not previously been employed by the employer or was previously employed by the employer but has been separated from the prior employment for at least sixty consecutive days.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 888 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair