STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2261

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3041

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 3041 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 appropriations and approve payments for claims against the State, its officers, and its employees.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Budget and Finance.

Your Committee finds that, based on the testimony submitted by the Department of the Attorney General, this measure requests a total of $938,613.47 in appropriations from the general fund, to be paid from the fiscal year 2021-2022 budget for eight claims settled by the State. Timely passage of this measure will minimize the State's obligation to pay interest on those amounts.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Providing that items 1 though 4 as identified in Part I of this measure shall be paid from funds appropriated to and expended by the respective agency subject to the judgement or settlement; and

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

Your Committee notes that the allocation of budget line items is more appropriately left to your Committee on Ways and Means. Therefore, your Committee recommends that your Committee on Ways and Means substitute appropriate item and program ID numbers for the blanks used in this measure.

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. 3041, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3041, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair