STAND. COM. REP. NO.  761-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   S.B. No. 2661

      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. 2661, 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, its officers, or its employees.

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

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Inserting the appropriation amounts for each of the claims;

     (2)  Adding five newly resolved claims totaling an additional $4,110,815.29, with $3,985,815.29 to be appropriated from the general fund and $125,000 to be appropriated from departmental funds;

     (3)  Adding a new section to Part II to reflect the Department of Transportation, Highways Division, cases that were resolved; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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. 2661, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2661, 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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JON RIKI KARAMATSU, Chair