Bill Text: HI HB1034 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Actions Against State

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-23 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [HB1034 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1034-Introduced.html

Report Title:

Actions Against State

 

Description:

Clarifies that certain waivers of the State's sovereign immunity can only take place if the Legislature has in a statute unequivocally waived that sovereign immunity.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1034

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO CIVIL ACTIONS.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 661-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§661-1  Jurisdiction.  The several circuit courts of the State and, except as otherwise provided by statute or rule, the several state district courts shall, subject to appeal as provided by law, have original jurisdiction to hear and determine the following matters, and, unless otherwise provided by law, shall determine all questions of fact involved without the intervention of a jury[.]:

     (1)  All claims against the State founded upon any statute of the State; or upon any regulation of an executive department; or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the State, and all claims which may be referred to any such court by the legislature; provided that no action shall be maintained, nor shall any process issue against the State, based on any contract or any act of any state officer which the officer is not authorized to make or do by the laws of the State, nor upon any other cause of action than as herein set forth[.]; and provided further that a claim founded upon a statute of the State is within the original jurisdiction of the courts only if, in the text of the separate statute upon which the claim is founded, the State has unequivocally waived its sovereign immunity for the claim.

     (2)  All counterclaims, whether liquidated or unliquidated, or other demands whatsoever on the part of the State against any person making claim against the State under this chapter."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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By Request

 

 

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