Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 214, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is provide grants to conduct funeral and burial services for deceased World War II New Filipino Scout veterans, and for transporting the remains of these deceased veterans to the Philippines, in situations not currently addressed by the Office of Veterans' Services.

The Office of Veterans' Services of the Department of Defense submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to $1; and

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 214, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 214, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.