Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2378 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify that all administratively-attached boards and commissions are arms of the State and entitled to the same sovereign immunity as the State itself.

The Attorney General testified in support of this bill. The Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii offered comments and concerns regarding this measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure will provide an explicit provision expressing the State's intent to extend its sovereign immunity to boards and commissions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2378 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.