STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2782

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2961

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2961, S.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 measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of the Attorney General and to the Department of Transportation to satisfy claims against the State, its officers, or its employees.

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

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to satisfy various claims against the State, its officers, or its employees.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding appropriations for three more claims that have been resolved since the measure was last amended.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2961, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2961, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair