Report Title:

Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Incorporated; Grant-in-Aid

Description:

Appropriates $2,950,000 as a grant-in-aid to Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Incorporated to build a combined veterans center in Hawaii county.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2059

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for the hawaii island veterans memorial, incorporated.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Incorporated was formed on April 18, 1997, as a nonprofit corporation specifically to plan, construct, and operate a combined veterans center and a fifty-unit veterans home in Hawaii county. The combined veterans center will provide counseling, readjustment, medical treatment through the community-based outpatient clinic, laboratory assistance, post-traumatic stress disorder consultation, recreational activities, and housing for homeless veterans. The goal is to provide a permanent, safe, and centralized location for these activities.

The project is to be built in three phases, with phase I consisting of building the fourteen thousand four hundred square-foot combined veterans center that includes a seven thousand square-foot counseling, readjustment, and community-based outpatient clinic, a meeting hall, offices for the Hawaii county office of veterans services, and a manager's office. Phase II consists of building an eight hundred sixty-four square-foot maintenance building/garage with additional parking and a recreational area, gateball courts, volleyball courts, tennis and basketball courts, and a picnic area. Phase III consists of the fifty-unit veterans home. Funding is requested for phases I and II only, amounting to $2,950,000. The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Incorporated to construct phases I and II of its project.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $2,950,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, for a grant-in-aid to the Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Incorporated for plans, land acquisition, design and engineering, construction, and equipment for phase I and phase II of the combined veterans center project, as described in section 1.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of defense for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

INTRODUCED BY:

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