STAND

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1265-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2834

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

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 S.B. No. 2834, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to satisfy claims against the State for tax refunds, judgments, settlements, and miscellaneous claims.

The Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Including five additional claims totaling $753,910.25, that were resolved recently;

(2) Amending references to the Young v. Coloma-Agaran case by:

(a) Deleting its appropriation from part I of this bill, because this judgment should be paid from a special fund and not the general fund;

(b) Reducing the judgment amount from $269,520.83 to $251,849.75; and

(3) Adding a new section appropriating the sum of $4,500,000 to satisfy the terms of settlement agreements between the State, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, the Judiciary, and the United Public Workers (UPW) and pay employees amounts owed for a proposed deferred compensation plan sponsored by UPW that was never implemented; and

(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2834, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2834, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair