STAND. COM. REP. NO. 736-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2620
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2620, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RELIEF OF CERTAIN
     PERSONS' CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AND
     PROVIDING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
payment of judgments against, and settlements entered into by,
the University of Hawaii (UH) for the satisfaction of claims
against UH, its officers, or employees.

     Comments were submitted by UH.

     Your Committee is concerned that the $800,000 expenditure
for waste minimization and pollution prevention benefits both UH
and the Department of Health.  Moreover, your Committee is
troubled that this settlement in effect appropriates funding for
repair, maintenance, and pollution prevention that would be
within UH's operating budget.  It is the intent of your Committee
to hold further discussion on this issue to assure that this
expenditure is not in effect circumventing the legislative
process.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Specifying that general funds are to UOH 900,
          Systemwide Programs;

 
 
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     (2)  Changing the appropriation amount from $1 to $505,000
          in the Matter of the UH at Manoa Docket No. 99-HW-EA-
          02; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct
          a drafting error.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
2620, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2620, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair