Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1410, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds out of the University of Hawaii (UH) Tuition and Fees Special Fund to pay for judgments or settlements arising out of claims against UH.

UH supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an additional claim settlement of $356,983.37 for attorneys' fees and costs related to a claim of arbitration between UHPA and the Board of Regents of UH.

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 S.B. No. 1410, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1410, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.