STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2739

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2744

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2744, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FALSE CLAIMS TO THE STATE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to automatically increase penalties for false claims to the State to maintain consistency with the federal False Claims Act and to comply with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990.

Your Committee received no written comments on the measure.

Your Committee finds that this measure addresses a federal mandate that the penalties for false claims to the State must equal or exceed corresponding provisions in the federal False Claims Act.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2744, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2744, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair