STAND. COM. REP. NO. 707-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2359

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2359 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 bill is to appropriate funds to settle claims against the State, its officers, or its employees.

The Attorney General testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying an inadvertent reference to the Department of Education that should have referenced the Hawaii Tourism Authority of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity 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. 2359, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2359, H.D. 1.

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

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair