STAND. COM. REP. NO. 578________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1105
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred H.B. No. 1105 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CLAIMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
     BASED ON YEAR 2000 ERRORS BY COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the governmental
immunity provisions created by Act 213 of Session Laws of Hawaii,
1998 to protect the government from serving as a deep pocket for
claims based upon Year 2000 computer errors.

     Your Committee received testimony in favor of this bill from
the Department of Accounting and General Services, the Department
of Transportation, the University of Hawaii, the Queen's Health
Systems, and Bank of Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that the language of this bill is
broader than Act 213 of Session Laws of Hawaii, 1998 to accord
the state greater protection from lawsuits based upon Year 2000 
computer errors.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     1) Deleting references to the term "between the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries" in order to clarify any ambiguity
concerning the scope of the bill's coverage; and


 
 
 
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     2) Making changes of a nonsubstantive nature for technical
and stylistic purposes.

     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. 1105, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
1105, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   PAUL T. OSHIRO, Chair