Bill Text: HI SB2661 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Appropriations; Claims Against State

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-05-12 - (S) Act 098, 5/12/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 556). [SB2661 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2661-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2292

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2661

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2661 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 for judgments, settlements, and miscellaneous payments.

 

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.  Written testimony presented to your Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to satisfy all claims against the State, its officers, or its employees.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adding claims for judgments and settlements, as recommended by the Department of the Attorney General; and

 

     (2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050 to ensure that this measure remains available to accommodate additional claims if necessary in this legislative session.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2661, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2661, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Government Operations,

 

		____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair