STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2820

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2414
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1



Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
2414, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     ASBESTOS PROPERTY DAMAGE LITIGATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate additional funds
to pursue the asbestos property damage litigation in fiscal year
1999-2000.

     Your Committee finds that this appropriation will allow the
State to pay experts and consultants, whose work is crucial to
the State's ability to present the necessary proof of product
identification in this litigation.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Attorney General.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by inserting a provision to justify exceeding the general
fund expenditure ceiling.

     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.
2414, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2414, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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