STAND. COM. REP. NO. 254

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1021

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1021 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to remove the public funds restriction and appropriates general funds for construction of the state law enforcement memorial.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Public Safety and Honolulu Police Department.

 

     Your Committees find that Act 14, Session Laws of Hawaii 2011, requires that a state law enforcement memorial be constructed in the Capitol district.  This memorial will honor law enforcement officers from city, county, state, military, and federal agencies who have died in the line of duty, while serving the people of Hawaii.  The Hawaii Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation has raised $500,000 toward construction of the memorial and has selected a design for the memorial.  This measure will enable construction to commence.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1021 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

 

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WILL ESPERO, Chair

 

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LAURA H. THIELEN, Chair