Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2331, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to reestablish the Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration of the Korean War Commission (Commission) and to appropriate funds to enable the Commission to complete its work.

Your Committee finds that while the Commission was established in 1999 through Executive Order No. 99-07 and was directed to complete its work by the end of this year's legislative session, it still needs more time. Your Committee also finds that next year, 2003, represents the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean conflict. Hawaii sent many of its young men to the Korean peninsula to fight in the conflict of the 1950s. Those who still survive and those who died can be honored and remembered during the 50th anniversary celebrations. Your Committee therefore finds that an extension of the Commission's life and provision of more funds are appropriate under the circumstances.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical amendments in keeping with proper drafting style and also changed the appropriation to a blank amount to allow for further discussion.

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. 2331, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2331, S.D. 2.