REPORT TITLE:
Asbestos Litigation Emerg. App


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates emergency funds ($2,100,00) for the continuation
conclusion of the asbestos property damage litigation in fiscal
year 1999-2000.

 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE ASBESTOS PROPERTY
   DAMAGE LITIGATION.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  This Act is recommended by the governor for
 
 2 immediate passage in accordance with section 9 of article VII of
 
 3 the Constitution of the State of Hawaii.
 
 4      SECTION 2.  In 1993, the State of Hawaii commenced an
 
 5 asbestos property damage civil lawsuit against four former
 
 6 manufacturers of certain kinds of friable asbestos-containing
 
 7 building materials.  To date, the asbestos property damage
 
 8 litigation, State of Hawaii v. W. R. Grace & Co., Civil No. 93-
 
 9 4161-10 (Haw. 1st Cir.), has been funded from amounts budgeted
 
10 within the department of the attorney general's budgeted legal
 
11 services programs.
 
12      The amounts budgeted within the department of the attorney
 
13 general's legal services budget for the asbestos property damage
 
14 litigation for fiscal year 1999-2000 are insufficient to pay the
 
15 current expenses of the litigation.  The expenses of the
 
16 litigation are the hourly fees and reimbursable costs of the
 
17 experts and consultants and special deputies retained for the
 
18 asbestos property damage litigation.
 
19      The purpose of this bill is to appropriate an additional
 

 
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 1 $2,100,000 for payment of expenses of the asbestos property
 
 2 damage litigation in fiscal year 1999-2000.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 4 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $2,100,000, or so much
 
 5 thereof as may be necessary, for fiscal year 1999-2000 for the
 
 6 expenses of the asbestos property damage litigation.
 
 7      SECTION 4.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 8 department of the attorney general for the purposes of this Act.
 
 9      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
 
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11                       INTRODUCED BY:  ___________________________
 

 
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