STAND. COM. REP. NO.2732

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: S.B. No. 2382

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2382, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to establish a National Korean War Museum.

Your Committee finds that the State of Hawaii had the highest percentage of casualties from the Korean War than any other state. Hawaii is therefore a fitting site for a museum to honor the commitment and dedication of our military personnel in that action. Your Committee also finds that such a museum will be of interest to many Korean war veterans throughout the rest of the country, and may encourage tourism as these veterans and their loved ones come to Hawaii to visit the museum.

Your Committee has amended the bill by making the amount of the appropriation blank to encourage further discussion.

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. 2382, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2382, S.D. 2.

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair