STAND. COM. REP. NO.  400

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1065

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1065 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY AFFAIRS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to continue to honor those who have served our country by appropriating funds for the maintenance of state veterans cemeteries statewide, including the purchase of appropriate soil and casket liners to remedy the soil problems at the cemeteries.

 

     The Office of Veterans Services and State Advisory Board on Veterans Services supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Creating separate appropriations for:

 

(A)  The maintenance of state veterans cemeteries; and

 

(B)  The purchase of casket liners;

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2015, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1065, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1065, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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CINDY EVANS, Chair