STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1187

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 1231

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1231, 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 judgments, settlements, and miscellaneous payments.

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

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Appropriating additional funds for eight new claims that      have been resolved, totaling $320,832.59; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments to correct         drafting errors.

     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 H.B. No. 1231, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1231, H.D. 2.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair