STAND. COM. REP. NO. 251

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1441
                                        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. 1441 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS RIGHTS AND
     BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is provide grant funds for
funeral and burial expenses and transportation of the remains to
the Philippines for deceased World War II Filipino veterans.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Office of Veterans Services.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will right an
injustice to World War II Filipino veterans and their families
who may not be able to qualify for other forms of burial grants
because they are too "poor".

     Your Committee is in support of this measure and has amended
it to add an appropriation of $50,000 per year for the next three
years, to fund this burial grant program.

     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. 1441, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached

 
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hereto as S.B. No. 1441, 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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