STAND. COM. REP. NO.  843-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2116

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2116, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INDEMNIFICATION OF COUNTY AGENCIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Governor to delegate to the Superintendent of Education the authority to agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless a county agency, its officers, agents, and employees for public school purposes and functions on county facilities.

     The Department of Education, Department of the Attorney General, and County of Kauai Office of the County Attorney testified in support of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making its execution mandatory rather than discretionary.

     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. 2116, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2116, 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,

____________________________

JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair