REPORT TITLE:
DHHL individual claims review


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates emergency funds to cover personnel costs of $97,216
for the Individual Claims Unit for the four-month remaining
period of fiscal year 1998-99.

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES FOR
   DEPARTMENT OF HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS INDIVIDUAL CLAIMS
   REVIEW.



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

 1      SECTION 1.  This Act is recommended by the governor for
 
 2 immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of
 
 3 the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
 
 4      SECTION 2.  Act 116, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998,
 
 5 appropriated $188,432 in general funds to the department of the
 
 6 attorney general to defend the department of Hawaiian home lands'
 
 7 interests in the review of individual claims brought pursuant to
 
 8 chapter 674, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  The appropriated amount is
 
 9 for only eight months of fiscal year 1998-1999.
 
10      A critical funding emergency exists.  The Hawaiian home
 
11 lands trust individual claims review panel ("Panel"), the body
 
12 which receives and reviews claims of individual native Hawaiian
 
13 beneficiaries for actual damages, is authorized to continue to
 
14 process claims until December 31, 1999.  The Hawaiian claims
 
15 office, of which the Panel is a part, is funded until June 30,
 
16 1999.  However, the appropriation for the department of the
 
17 attorney general will be completely expended by the end of
 
18 February 1999.  Without additional appropriations from the
 

 
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 1 general fund, the department of the attorney general will be
 
 2 unable to continue its defense of the department of Hawaiian home
 
 3 lands' interests in the claims review process after February 28,
 
 4 1999.
 
 5      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate additional general
 
 6 fund moneys to allow the department of the attorney general to
 
 7 continue its legal representation of the department of Hawaiian
 
 8 home lands under chapter 674, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the
 
 9 period March 1, 1999, through June 30, 1999.
 
10      SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
11 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $97,216, or so much
 
12 thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal year 1998-1999 for the
 
13 purposes of this Act.
 
14      SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
15 department of the attorney general.
 
16      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
 
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19                           INTRODUCED BY:  _______________________
 

 
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