STAND. COM. REP. 2810

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2131

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2131, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to enable the state Department of Defense to publish a Hawaii veterans' newsletter.

Your Committee finds that the lack of an effective method of communicating with Hawaii's military veterans and their families prevents the dissemination of important information regarding outreach services, upcoming veteran events, and various military ceremonies. This measure makes an appropriation to enable the Office of Veterans' Affairs in the Department of Defense to publish a Hawaii veterans' newsletter that will communicate noteworthy information in a timely manner.

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. 2131, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair