STAND. COM. REP. NO.  161-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2489

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2489 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to address the special needs of female veterans by appropriating funds for the establishment of one full-time permanent Veterans Services Counselor IV position in the Office of Veterans' Services to address the needs of all veterans, with a focus on female veterans who served on active duty for the full period they were activated.

 

     The Department of Defense, Office of Veterans' Services, The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii, Women Veterans Task Force Committee, and several concerned individuals supported this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2489 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Public Employment.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair