STAND. COM. REP. NO.  773

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 556

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 556, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERAN BURIAL GRANTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide for disbursement of burial grant funds to pay for funeral and burial services, and for transportation of remains, for certain Filipino veterans (New Filipino Scout) of World War II.

 

     The Office of Veterans' Services opposed this bill.

 

     To encourage further discussion, your Committee has amended this measure by changing:

 

     (1)  The limit on burial grant funds that may be disbursed on behalf of a New Filipino Scout from $2,500 per person to an unspecified amount; and

 

     (2)  Its effective date to July 1, 2020.

 

     Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for style, clarity, and consistency.

 


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 556, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 556, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair