STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3046
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2277
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 2, 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 measure is to provide for the authorization and payment of claims against the State for judgments, settlements, and other miscellaneous payments.
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Attorney General.
Your Committee finds that the measure in its present form contains nineteen claims that total $4,469,828.63. The Attorney General testified that since the hearing of this measure before the House Committee on Finance, nine additional claims have been resolved.
Your Committee has amended this measure in accordance with the Attorney General's testimony to:
(1) Incorporate nine new claims resolved for an additional $762,011.11;
(2) Change the estimated costs and interest amount for Kamalu v. Paren, et al. from $1,273,945.21 to $1,702,327.87;
(3) Add a new Section 3 to Part II of the measure inserting a claim against the Department of Land and Natural Resources for $25,000 to be expended from the special land and development fund; and
(4) Add an additional $2,300,000 for settlement of a class action lawsuit against the Hawaii Community Development Corporation of Hawaii that the Attorney General has testified is in the process of settling and requested that this Committee review the proposed language of prior to passage of this measure to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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 H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,
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____________________________ COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair |
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