STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3530

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2418

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2418, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FUNDS USED FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the expenditure of $1,500,000, which was previously appropriated by Act 49, Session Laws of Hawaii 2017, to satisfy class counsel's attorney's fees in the case of E.R.K. v. Department of Education.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that the expenditure of $1,500,000 for the attorney's fees is reasonable.

 

     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. 2418, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair