REPORT TITLE:
HI Is. Veterans Memorial Inc.


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates unspecified sum as grant-in-aid to Hawaii Island
Veterans Memorial Inc. to build a combined veterans center in
Hawaii county.  (SD1)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT
MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII ISLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL
   INC.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. was
 
 2 formed on April 18, 1997, as a nonprofit corporation specifically
 
 3 to plan, construct, and operate a combined veterans center and a
 
 4 fifty unit veterans home in Hawaii county.  The combined veterans
 
 5 center will provide counseling, readjustment, medical treatment
 
 6 through the community-based outpatient clinic, laboratory
 
 7 assistance, post-traumatic stress disorder consultation,
 
 8 recreational activities, and housing for homeless veterans.  The
 
 9 goal is to provide a permanent, safe, and centralized location
 
10 for these activities.
 
11      The project is to be built in three phases, with phase I
 
12 consisting of building the fourteen thousand four hundred square-
 
13 foot combined veterans center that includes a seven thousand
 
14 square-foot counseling, readjustment, and community-based
 
15 outpatient clinic, a meeting hall, offices for the Hawaii county
 
16 office of veterans services, and a manager's office.  Phase II
 
17 consists of building an eight hundred sixty-four square-foot
 
18 maintenance building/garage with additional parking and a
 
19 recreational area, gateball courts, volleyball courts, tennis and
 

 
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 1 basketball courts, and a picnic area.  Phase III consists of the
 
 2 fifty-unit veterans home.  Funding is requested for phases I and
 
 3 II only.  The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for a
 
 4 grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. to
 
 5 construct phases I and II of its project.
 
 6      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 7 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $          , or so
 
 8 much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, for a
 
 9 grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc. for
 
10 plans, land acquisition, design and engineering, construction,
 
11 and equipment for phase I and phase II of the combined veterans
 
12 center project, as described in section 1.
 
13      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
14 department of defense for the purposes of this Act.
 
15      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.