STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2439

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2961

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2961 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 the Department of the Attorney General to satisfy claims against the State or its officers or employees for overpayment of taxes, refunds, reimbursements, payments of judgments or settlements, or for other liabilities.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.

     Your Committee finds that the appropriation of these sums is necessary to satisfy various claims against the State.

     Your Committee has amended this measure pursuant to the testimony of the Department of the Attorney General to add appropriations for five additional claims that have been settled or have had a judgment rendered against the State since the introduction of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2961, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2961, 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 Labor,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair