STAND. COM. REP. NO.  360-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2361

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2361 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEBT COLLECTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer debt collection efforts to the Attorney General for all executive departments, with the exception of the University of Hawaii, for accounts delinquent for more than ninety days.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General and Department of Taxation provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding the Department of Taxation as another executive department for whom the Department of the Attorney General will not pursue collections; and

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to January 7, 2059, to promote further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2361, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2361, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair