STAND. COM. REP. NO.  296-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2438

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE, ITS OFFICERS, OR ITS EMPLOYEES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to make emergency appropriations for claims against the State or its officers or employees.

 

     The Department of the Attorney General testified in support of this bill.  The Judiciary provided comments.

 

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in his Governor's Message No. 190 to the House of Representatives, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying the proper name of the State Harbor Special Fund; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2438, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2438, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair