Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 673 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the payment of monetary claims against the State, its officers, and employees, including claims for tax refunds, judgments and settlements against the State, and claims for legislative relief.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that this measure will enable the State to pay its outstanding liabilities in a timely manner.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting one of the two identical sums requested for the Harnik case which is listed twice in Part I of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 673, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 673, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.