Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 513 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to satisfy claims against the State for refunds of taxes, judgments, settlements, and miscellaneous claims.

The State of Hawaii Attorney General submitted testimony in support of the bill. The Department of Transportation submitted testimony in opposition.

In its original form, this bill contained 28 claims totaling $3,213,544.52. Since the introduction of the bill, three additional claims totaling $57,500.00 have been resolved. Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by including the three additional claims. The amended appropriation accounts for 31 claims totaling $3,271,044.52.

Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for style and clarity.

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. 513, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 513, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.