STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3285

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2476

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2476, H.D. 1, 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 to satisfy various claims against the State for overpayment of taxes, refunds, reimbursements, payments of judgments or settlements, and other claims.

 

     Written comments in support of the measure were submitted by the Department of the Attorney General.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure requests a total of $1,899,814.01 in appropriations from the general fund to satisfy ten claims against the State; $210,000 in appropriations from the state highway fund to satisfy one claim against the State; and $60,000 in appropriations from the airport revenue fund to satisfy one claim against the State.  Timely passage of this measure will minimize interest on those amounts.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding two settlement claims totaling $5,559,107.50, as requested by the Department of the Attorney General, from general funds, which increases the total amount of appropriations in this measure to $7,728,921.51 in order to satisfy a total of fourteen claims against the State.

 

     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 H.B. No. 2476, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2476, H.D. 1, 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