Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 214, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

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

In addition, this measure appropriates the sum of $100,000 to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2001-2002, for burial grants for World War II Filipino veterans.

Your Committee finds that the intended beneficiaries of this measure are World War II Filipino veterans who are now citizens of the United States and who served honorably in an active duty status in any of the armed services of the United States between September 1, 1939, and December 31, 1946.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the sum appropriated for burial grants from $100,000 to an unspecified amount.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 214, S.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.