STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3540

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2279

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2279, H.D. 2, 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 claims against the State, its officers, and employees for judgments, settlements, and other liabilities.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the State has a responsibility to promptly satisfy all claims against the State upon the resolution of those claims.  Your Committee further finds that since this measure was last amended, the State has resolved two additional claims totaling $135,000.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adding appropriations in the amount of:

 

(1)  $100,000 for an order against the Department of Education in the case of E.R.K., et al. v. Department of Education, Civil No. 10-00436 SOM-KSC, USDC; and

 

(2)  $35,000 for a settlement involving the Department of Public Safety in the case of Avila v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 13-1-3149-12 ECN, First Circuit.

 

     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. 2279, H.D. 2, S.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, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair