STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2787

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2738

       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 Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2738, 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 and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to satisfy settlements of claims against the State, its officers, or employees.

     Your Committee received written comments from the Department of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee finds that the $1,899,814.01 appropriated from the general fund and the $210,000.00 appropriated from the state highway fund, for settlement of the eleven claims, are appropriate. 

     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. 2738, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair