STAND. COM. REP. NO. 65-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1805

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1805 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to emphasize that one of the primary objectives and policies of Hawaii's State Plan is to:

(1) Promote the expansion of federal military installations and investment in the state; and

(2) Fully support the continual operations of existing installations.

The state Department of Defense, the Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, and a state representative submitted comments on this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Broadening the language of the bill to include local national defense missions and not simply military installations;

(2) Further clarifying Hawaii's supportive role in national defense; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and to conform to drafting style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1805, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1805, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs,

 

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KEN ITO, Chair