STAND. COM. REP. NO.  527-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2468

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2468 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FALSE CLAIMS TO THE STATE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to bring Hawaii's false claims laws into compliance with the federal False Claims Act.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Making the county false claims laws conform with amendments to the state false claims laws;

 

     (2)  Repealing section 661-21(f), Hawaii Revised Statutes, to allow actions for tax fraud to be pursued under false claims actions; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2468, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2468, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ GILBERT KEITH-AGARAN, Chair