STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2912

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2476

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 2476, H.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 and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation to satisfy several claims against the State for refunds of taxes, judgments and settlements, and other miscellaneous payments.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General and Department of Education.

     Your Committee finds that this measure requests a total of $1,899,814.01 in appropriations from the general fund to satisfy ten claims against the State and a total of $210,000 in appropriations from the state highway fund to satisfy one claim against the State.  Timely passage of this measure will minimize interest on those amounts.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Adding one settlement claim totaling $60,000 to this measure, as requested by the Department of the Attorney General, from the airport revenue fund, which increases the total amount of appropriations in this measure to $2,169,814.01 in order to satisfy a total of twelve claims against the State; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2476, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2476, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair