STAND. COM. REP. NO. 221-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2243
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 2243 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR VETERANS
     CEMETERIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the
maintenance of veterans cemeteries in the counties of Hawaii,
Kauai, and Maui.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Office of Veterans Services, the Hawaii County Council,
the County of Hawaii Department of Parks and Recreation, and over
thirty members of the Disabled American Veterans, Hilo Chapter.

     Your Committee finds that for too long, the counties have
assumed the responsibility for burial of Hawaii's veterans
without increased funding support for the maintenance and upkeep
of the resting spots of our veterans.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to specify that the
appropriation is to consist of grants to each county and such
grants are to be distributed in a lump sum at the beginning of
the 2000-2001 fiscal year.

     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

 
 
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purpose of H.B. No. 2243, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No.
2243, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   NESTOR R. GARCIA, Chair