STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1594

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1022

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1022, 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 moneys to satisfy various claims against the State, its officers, or its employees.

 

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

 

     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 three additional claims totaling $11,030,000.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Inserting an appropriation in the amount of $875,000 for a settlement in the case of Rooney, et al. v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 14-0323(2), Second Circuit;

 

(2)  Inserting an appropriation in the amount of $75,000 for a settlement in the case of Silva v. State of Hawaii, et al., Civil No. 15-1-269K, Third Circuit;

 

(3)  Authorizing the amount of $10,080,000 for a settlement in the case of Helix Electric, Inc. v. DCK Pacific Construction, LLC, et al., Civil No. 16-1-1090-06, First Circuit;

 

     (4)  Changing the appropriation for the settlement in the case of Bridge Aina Le'a, LLC v. State of Hawaii

Land Use Commission, Civil No. 11-00414 SOM KJM, USDC, from $1 to $1,000,000;

    

(5)  Making the measure effective upon its approval; and

 

(6)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 1022, 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. 1022, H.D. 1, 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