STAND. COM. REP. NO. 56

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1255
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1255 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL
     OBLIGATION BONDS TO BUILD A HAWAII ISLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL
     CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of
general obligation bonds to build a Hawaii Island veterans
memorial center.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Office of Veterans Services, the Advisory Board of
Veterans Services, the Big Island Veterans Association, the
Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial, Inc., the Hawaii Island Veterans
Memorial Organization, the Oahu Veterans Council, and two
individuals.

     Your Committee finds that there are over 14,000 veterans in
Hawaii County.  After many, many years of planning and working to
develop a sound, comprehensive program of services, a suitable
site had been identified and is available.  When completed, the
center will be a one-stop facility, providing counseling,
financial assistance, and medical care, as well as a variety of
other support services, and space for other veterans
organizations.


 
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     Your Committee is in full support of this facility and the
services it will provide to veterans on the Island of Hawaii.
Your Committee has amended this measure to delete specific dollar
amounts, and defers to the Committee on Ways and Means for final
determination.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1255, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1255, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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