HB2507 HD2 HSCR317-02

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.317-02

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2507

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2507, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF DIVORCES AND ANNULMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to streamline the process of registering a divorce or annulment by allowing direct transmittal of information from the Judiciary to the Department of Health (DOH).

The Lieutenant Governor submitted testimony in support of this measure. DOH and the Judiciary provided comments on the bill.

Your Committee received testimony from DOH requesting that this bill be amended to repeal section 338-29, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS). DOH explained that the Judiciary is the governmental source of copies of divorce decrees, and that the certified divorce certificates issued by DOH contain information already found in the divorce decree. DOH noted that the number of certified divorce certificates it issues represents less than one percent of the annual total volume of vital statistics certificates that DOH issues upon request.

Your Committee has amended this bill, as requested by DOH, by deleting the original provisions that amended section 338-29, HRS, and providing instead for the repeal of this section.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2507, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2507, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

		____________________________ ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair