STAND. COM. REP. NO. 822

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 121

       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 Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 121, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol to continue its missions in the State of Hawaii, including tsunami warning operations.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense; Hawaii Wing, Civil Air Patrol; 66th Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol; Lyman Field Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol; and fourteen individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol provides necessary disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport services.  An appropriation will assist the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol to continue its missions, including tsunami warning operations, which have been Hawaii Civil Air Patrol's primary mission in Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to allow for further discussion.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 121, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 121, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

 

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair