Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2466 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $3,055,896 in emergency funds for the payment of workers' compensation claims.

Your Committee has received Governor's Message No. 127 requesting immediate consideration and passage of this bill, in accordance with Article VII, Section 9, of the State Constitution.

The Department of Human Resources Development submitted testimony in support of this measure.

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 H.B. No. 2466 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.