STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2520

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2438

       H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to satisfy twenty-four claims against the State and its officers or employees for fiscal year 2011-2012, because the requested funds were not appropriated during the previous legislative regular session.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General, the Judiciary, and the Department of Education.

 

     Your Committees find that during the Regular Session of 2011, a request was made to the Legislature for funds to satisfy judgments and settlements of claims against the State for fiscal year 2010-2011.  Those requested funds were not appropriated and as a result, certain claimants have sought or threatened to initiate legal action against the State.  This measure seeks an emergency appropriation to satisfy twenty-four judgments and settlements totaling $5,790,697.12 in order to avoid further legal action and expenses.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Labor and Ways and Means,

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair