Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 989 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to satisfy claims for legislative relief, judgments against the State, settlements, and miscellaneous claims occurring over the past year.

Your Committees received testimony from the Office of the Attorney General supporting this measure, including a description of each line item in the bill and three additional claims that were subsequently resolved.

Your Committees find that each of the line items contained in this measure, which are primarily settlements and judgments resulting from litigation, have been pursued in good faith by the State and should be funded. Your Committees amended the measure to add the three additional claims reported by the Attorney General.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Judiciary that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 989, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 989, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.