STAND. COM. REP. NO.2298

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2382

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2382 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A NATIONAL KOREAN WAR MUSEUM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for a National Korean War Museum in Hawaii.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, the Office of Veterans' Services, the West Hawaii Korean Veterans Chapter Kailua-Kona, and two honored veterans.

Your Committees find that veterans who served the United States to protect freedom and democracy deserve our utmost honor and respect. Your Committees further find that the State of Hawaii has the highest percentage of casualties from the Korean War of any state, making Hawaii the most appropriate venue for a memorial.

Your Committees amended this measure to leave the appropriation amount blank for determination by your Committee on Ways and Means. Your Committees also made several technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and accuracy.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2382, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2382, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations and Economic Development and Technology,

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ROD TAM, Chair

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair