STAND. COM. REP. NO. 22

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 494
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 494 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WOMEN IN
     MILITARY SERVICE FOR AMERICA MEMORIAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $7,500 to the
Department of Defense for fiscal year 1999-2000 as Hawaii's
donation to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at
Arlington National Cemetery.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Advisory Board on Veterans Services, the Office of Veterans
Services, the Kauai Veteran's Council, and a concerned citizen.

     Your Committee finds that this memorial, which recognizes
women who served so honorably and unselfishly during each and
every conflict in which our nation has been involved, was long
overdue.  While women from all fifty states have been honored in
this memorial, Hawaii is one of only six states which has not
made a donation in support of this effort.  This measure
demonstrates the State's pride and gratitude for all that the
7,500 servicewomen of this State, and all the servicewomen around
the country, have contributed to the protection and promotion of
American values and ideals.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is

 
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attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 494 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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