Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2424 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.

In its original form, this bill contained 20 claims totaling $1,507,334.19. Among the 20 claims is a claim for $36,720.48 to correct an appropriation paid via Act 168 of the 2001 Hawaii Session Laws from the Department of Transportation Harbors Fund instead of the General Fund. Since the introduction of the bill, six additional claims totaling $416,656.16 have been resolved. Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by including the six additional claims. The amended appropriation accounts for 26 claims totaling $1,923,990.35.

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. 2424, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2424, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.