STAND. COM. REP. NO. 647
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 565
H.D. 1
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 H.B. No. 565 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to allow for moneys awarded to the State from a civil action or settlement of a claim initiated by the Department of the Attorney General (AG) to be placed in the Litigation Deposits Trust Fund to be used, in part, to support the administrative costs of the AG.
The AG supported this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Eliminating exclusionary stipulations regarding claims covered by prior agreements with a government entity; and
(2) Reducing the list of items that the trust fund money could be used to purchase.
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 H.B. No. 565, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 565, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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