STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3488

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2277

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 2, S.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 provide for the authorization and payment of claims against the State for judgments, settlements, and other miscellaneous payments.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that the measure in its present form contains twenty-nine claims that total $7,960,222.40. The Attorney General testified that since the hearing of this measure before the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, nine additional claims have been resolved.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Incorporating nine new claims resolved for an additional $1,877,581.47 in accordance with the Attorney General's testimony;

(2) Alphabetizing the claims in sections 1 and 2 of the bill for ease of reference;

(3) Correcting an arithmetic error in the subtotal and total for section 2 of the bill; and

(4) Correcting a typographical error in the total for section 3 of the bill.

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 H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2277, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair