STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1615

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 929

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 929, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to clarify benefits to alternate payees, advisory review determinations of Hawaii domestic relations orders, and the priority of multiple orders.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System.

 

     Your Committees find that on July 1, 2020, the Employees' Retirement System (ERS) began processing Hawaii domestic relations orders to allow the System to make direct payments to alternate payees.  Your Committees further find that this measure is necessary for the ERS to implement the process of qualification, approval, and application of Hawaii domestic relations orders.  This measure specifies, among other things, that the ERS may release information that a member is entitled to receive an alternate payee pursuant to a complaint for divorce or divorce decree and the manner in which the ERS will prioritize multiple orders.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 929, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair

 

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KARL RHOADS, Chair