STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1242-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 20
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to
which was referred H.C.R. No. 20 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE SUPPORT OF THE
     STATE ADMINISTRATION TO IMPLEMENT EVENTS PLANNED BY THE 50TH
     ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF THE KOREAN WAR COMMISSION AND
     HONORING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KOREAN WAR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the
Legislature, the Governor, the State Department of Defense and
the Office of Veterans' Affairs to support and help to implement
the events planned by the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the
Korean War Commission.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from Brigadier General Hyo Kap Lee, Irwin K. Cockett Jr., Robert
S. Hamakawa, Members of the Korean War Veterans Association,
Hawaii Chapter, Members of the 5th Regimental Combat Team, Korean
War Veterans, Hawaii, Mildred Lehua McColgan, and  Glenn Au.

     Your Committee has amended this concurrent resolution by:

     (1)  Expanding the efforts by the Legislature, the Governor,
          the State Department of Defense and the Office of
          Veterans' Affairs to include funding the events
          planned.


 
 
 
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     (2)  Including the Counties as one of the parties
          supporting, funding and helping to implement the events
          planned.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and
purpose of H.C.R. No. 20, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached
hereto as H.C.R. No. 20, H.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Public Safety and
                                   Military Affairs,



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                                   NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair