Bill Text: HI SCR43 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Child Support Enforcement Agency; Financial and Management Audit

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-29 - (S) Referred to HMS/JGO, WAM. [SCR43 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR43-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	43
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the auditor to perform a financial and management audit of the child support enforcement agency.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Child Support Enforcement Program (Program) of the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement is a partnership across all levels of government designed to help families by promoting family self-sufficiency and child well-being; and

 

     WHEREAS, in Hawaii, the state agency that manages the Program is the Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA) within the Department of the Attorney General; and

 

     WHEREAS, CSEA has a staff of enforcement officers, investigators, accountants, attorneys, paralegals, and other personnel who help establish and enforce orders to collect child support; and

 

     WHEREAS, CSEA, on a case-by-case basis, offers the following services:

 

     (1)  Locating an absent parent;

 

     (2)  Establishing paternity;

 

     (3)  Establishing, modifying, and terminating child-support obligations;

 

     (4)  Collecting and disbursing child-support obligations; and

 

     (5)  Enforcing delinquent child-support obligations;

 

and

 

     WHEREAS, according to an article dated April 10, 2005, in The Honolulu Advertiser, CSEA handles more than 111,000 active collection accounts involving more than $104,000,000 annually, and the caseload for CSEA caseworkers averages 520 each, far higher than the national average of 350 cases each; and

 

     WHEREAS, despite some improvements in the last decade, there have been persistent complaints about the inefficient operation of CSEA; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2010, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Auditor is requested to perform a financial and management audit of CSEA; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Attorney General and the Administrator of CSEA are requested to cooperate fully with the Auditor in the conduct of the financial and management audit; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Auditor is requested to submit the results of the financial and management audit, including any necessary proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2011; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Auditor, Attorney General, and Administrator of CSEA.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Child Support Enforcement Agency; Financial and Management Audit