STAND. COM. REP. NO. 518-14
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2014
RE: H.B. No. 2072
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2014
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2072 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to focus on the growing need to improve veterans' services to address the specific needs of female veterans, as well as females on active duty, in such areas as medical and mental health care, child care services, housing, and financial assistance, by appropriating funds to establish a full-time, permanent Women's Veterans Coordinator position in the Office of Veterans' Services.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Clarifying that the Women's Veterans Coordinator position is being established to assist only female veterans who served on active duty for the full period during which they were activated and who were discharged with other than a dishonorable discharge; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2072, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2072, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,
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____________________________ K. MARK TAKAI, Chair |
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