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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 351-61

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Commission: means the crime victim compensation commission established by this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 351-2
  • Victim: means :

    (1) A person who is injured or killed by any act or omission of any other person coming within the criminal jurisdiction of the State;

    (2) Any resident of the State who is injured or killed in another state by an act or omission of another person, which act or omission is within the description of any of the crimes specified in § 351-32; or

    (3) A person who is a resident of this State who is injured or killed by an act of terrorism occurring outside the United States, as defined in title 18 United States Code § 2331. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 351-2

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any order for the payment of compensation under this chapter may be made on such terms as the commission deems appropriate. Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, the order may provide for apportionment of the compensation, for the holding of the compensation or any part thereof in trust, for the payment of the compensation in a lump sum or periodic installments, and for the payment of compensation for hospital, medical, funeral, or burial expenses directly to the person who has provided such services. All such orders shall contain words clearly informing the claimant that all awards and orders for payments under this chapter are subject to the making of an appropriation by the legislature to pay the claim, except as otherwise provided in section victim compensation special fund; when payments authorized” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2019″ statecd=”HI”>351-62.5.