STAND. COM. REP. NO. 945-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2340

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2340, 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 of this measure is to appropriate funds 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 Corrections and Rehabilitation and Department of Education. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Appropriating $401 in general funds for a settlement in the case of Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest v. Department of Public Safety; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2340, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2340, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair