STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2438

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2661

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2661, 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 satisfy all claims against the State, its officers, and its employees accrued during the past year.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to satisfy all judgments, settlements, and miscellaneous payments that are pending against the State that require legislative approval.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by including boilerplate provisions with respect to payment procedures and interest accrued on judgments.

     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. 2661, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2661, S.D. 2.

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

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair