STAND. COM. REP. NO.945

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1264

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1264, 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 of this measure is to appropriate funds on an emergency basis to pay claims against the State, its officers, or its employees.

Specifically, the measure appropriates:

(1) $567,885.66 from general revenues to be expended by the Department of the Attorney General;

(2) $850,000 out of the state highway fund to be expended by the Department of Transportation;

(3) $27,500 general fund sum to be expended by the Department of Accounting and General Services;

(4) $20,000 general fund sum from the developmental disabilities program to be expended by the Department of Health; and

(5) $4,133.25 general fund sum to be expended by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that the sums appropriated in the measure are necessary to satisfy various claims against the State. Payment of these claims in a timely manner will prevent interest from accruing on certain accounts.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by making technical amendments to:

(1) Clarify that the appropriation is recommended for immediate passage by the Governor; and

(2) Indicate in sections 3, 4, and 5 of the bill, the relevant section numbers of the acts amending Act 259, Session Laws of Hawaii 2001; and

by making other technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity 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 S.B. No. 1264, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1264, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair