STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1220-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 2961

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2961, S.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 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 six new claims that have been resolved, totaling $216,988.07; and

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

     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. 2961, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2961, S.D. 2, 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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TOMMY WATERS, Chair