STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2790

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2246

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2246, S.D. 1, 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 and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for claims made against the State, its officers, or employees.  

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that this measure requests a total of $593,650.72 in appropriations from the general fund to satisfy seven claims against the State and $90,000 in appropriations from the state highway fund to satisfy two claims against the State.  Timely passage of this measure will minimize interest on those amounts.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding five new claims at the request of the Department of the Attorney General.  The five new claims appropriate an additional $266,879.97 from the general fund and an additional $32,500.00 from the state highway fund.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2246, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2246, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair