STAND. COM. REP. NO.  872-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2279

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2279, H.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 of this measure is to appropriate funds to satisfy claims against the State, its officers, or its employees, including claims for legislative relief, judgments against the State, settlements, and miscellaneous claims.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure based on the recommendation of the Department of the Attorney General to add one new claim that has been resolved since the introduction of this measure for an additional general fund appropriation request of $58,286.00.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2279, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2279, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair