STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1168-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 2246

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 2246, S.D. 2, 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 for the payment of judgments and settlements for claims against the State, its officers, or employees.

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

     Your Committee acknowledges that the purpose of this measure is to satisfy judgments and settlements of claims against the State, its officers, or its employees by making appropriations out of the general fund or special funds such as the State Highway Fund.  In the near future, it is your Committee's intent to review each claim, in conjunction with the Committee on Finance, to assess whether payments should instead be appropriated out of the budget or funds of the respective departments that have been sued.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding four new claims at the request of the Department of the Attorney General.  The four new claims appropriate an additional $336,080.66 from the general fund.

     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 S.B. No. 2246, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2246, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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KARL RHOADS, Chair