STAND. COM. REP. NO.884

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 317

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 317, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF THE KOREAN WAR COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to the Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Korean War Commission to allow it to complete its commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the war.

The Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Korean War Commission was established by executive order in 1999 and funded by the Legislature in 2000. The executive order provided that the Commission be terminated at the end of the 2001 regular legislative session unless otherwise extended. The Legislature did extend the Commission to December 31, 2003, and appropriated additional funds for its work.

Your Committee finds that the commemoration is not yet complete, and there are numerous events planned in 2003, including a parade, banquet, educational activities, public displays, a veterans' reunion and tribute, dedication of the Waipahu Veterans' Memorial, and a massing of colors. Your Committee thus finds that it is necessary to appropriate additional funds to allow for the finalization of these events.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making the amount of the appropriation blank for the purposes of furthering discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 317, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 317, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair