STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2546

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2751
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2751, S.D. 1, entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds from the
general revenues of the State and from the state highway fund to
satisfy claims for legislative relief, judgments against the
State, settlements, and miscellaneous claims.

     This bill, in its present form, contains twenty-five claims
totalling $1,732,807.05 from the general fund, and two claims
totalling $1,819,751.10 from the state highway fund.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Department of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee has amended this bill to incorporate changes
suggested by the Attorney General.  These changes are:

     (1)  The addition of a settlement in the case of Brandon v.
          State of Hawaii, Civil No. 96-0865-03, First Circuit,
          in the amount of $25,000; and


 
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     (2)  The reduction of interest in the case of Taylor-Rice v.
          Leigh, et al., Civil No. 94-0173, Fifth Circuit, from
          $152,538 to $66,422.10; and the resultant reduction of
          the judgment from $1,744,751.10 to $1,658,635.20.

     In its amended form, this bill contains twenty-six claims
totalling $1,757,807.05 from the general fund, and two claims
totalling $1,733,635.20 from the state highway fund.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2751, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2751,
S.D. 2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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