Bill Text: HI SB2730 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: False Claims to the State

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2730 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2730-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2660

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2730

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2730, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FALSE CLAIMS TO THE STATE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to update state laws to meet federal requirements regarding qui tam actions for false claims committed against the State.  This measure also makes conforming amendments to corresponding statutes regarding false claims made to the counties.

 

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

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure brings the State's false claims laws into compliance with the federal False Claims Act and provides greater protections to individuals who allege false claims made against the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Deleting Part II of this measure, which amended provisions relating to false claims to counties, as the title of this measure may not sufficiently encompass those amendments; 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 Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2730, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2730, S.D. 2.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair