Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 673, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

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

Your Committee has amended this bill by including seven additional claims totaling $612,239.98, that have been resolved since the passage of S.B. No. 673, S.D. 2. As amended, this measure's appropriation request totals $1,526,362.92 allocated among 25 claims.

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 S.B. No. 673, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 673, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.