STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1218

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 49

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 49, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ARMED FORCES SERVICE MEMBERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to recognize the United States Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD Form 93, as a method of designating a person to direct disposition of an Armed Forces Service member's remains.

 

     Your Committee finds that members of the United States Armed Forces are required by federal law to designate a person to arrange for the disposition of their remains.  Your Committee further finds that the DD Form 93 must be updated annually and before any deployment.  Your Committee also finds that this measure will ensure that the DD Form 93 is deemed a legally sufficient document for designating an agent to arrange for the final disposition of a Service member's remains in the event of that Service member's death while serving in the Armed Forces.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2011.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 49, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 49, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

 

 

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair