HB527 HD1

Report Title:

Child Support Orders

 

Description:

Clarifies the definition of a "registering tribunal" and amends the notice requirements for proceedings to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered child support order. (HB527 HD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	527
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 576B-101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "registering tribunal" to read as follows:

""Registering tribunal" means a tribunal of the state in which a support order is registered. The child support enforcement agency of this State shall be deemed the registering tribunal for the receipt and processing of all registration requested by another child support enforcement agency or an individual who has applied for child support enforcement agency services, and the child support enforcement agency of this State shall register the request in the appropriate tribunal. The family court shall be the registering tribunal for all other requests for registration."

SECTION 2. Section 576B-606, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) as follows:

"(d) For the purposes of this section, service of the notice [shall be by personal service or certified mail, return receipt requested. After initial service is effected, additional service upon a party,] of a hearing regarding the validity or enforcement of the registered order, shall be satisfied by regular mail to the party's last known address. In any child support enforcement proceedings subsequent to an order, upon a showing that diligent effort has been made to ascertain the location of a party, notice of service of process shall be presumed to be satisfied upon delivery of written notice to the most recent residential or employer address on file with the state case registry."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.