STAND. COM. REP. NO.  920

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 775

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 775, 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 to satisfy claims against the State or its officers or employees for the overpayment of taxes, or for refunds, reimbursements, payments of judgments or settlements, or other liabilities.  

 

     The Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this measure.  

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding eight additional claims against the State of Hawaii as follows:

 

          (A)  Bitanga v. State of Hawaii, Tort Claim, a settlement in the amount of $18,000;

 

          (B)  Cain, et al. v. State of Hawaii Academy of Arts & Science Charter School, Civil No. 11-00501, USDC, a settlement in the amount of $30,000;

 

          (C)  E.P., et al. v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 10-1-1357-06, First Circuit, a settlement in the amount of $40,000;

 

          (D)  Doe Parent, et al. v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 09-1-2773-11, First Circuit, a settlement in the amount of $20,000;

 

          (E)  Gilding v. State of Hawaii, Civil No. 08-1-1852-09, First Circuit, a settlement in the amount of $350,000;

 

          (F)  Gwen Kubo, a miscellaneous claim in the amount of $3,337.75;

 

          (G)  Callo, et al. v. State of Hawaii, Civil No. 05-19782, Second Circuit, and Douger, et al. v. State of Hawaii, Civil No. 05-18339, Second Circuit (consolidated cases), a settlement in the amount of $2,100,000; and

 

          (H)  Dela Cruz v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 06-1-0258, Third Circuit, a settlement in the amount of $35,000; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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. 775, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 775, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair