Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 657, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to enable the Korean War Commission to hold various ceremonies and events to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

The Department of Defense-Office of Veterans Services, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Disabled American Veterans, Oahu Veterans Council, 5^Th Regimental Combat Team, Korean War Veterans, Hawaii, Korean War Veterans Association, Maui No Ka Oi, Chapter 282, Maui, Korean War Veterans Association, Hawaii Chapter #1, Aloha Chapter of the Chosin Few, Inc., Society of Military Widows, American Ex-Prisoners of War, Hawaii Chapter, and several concerned citizens testified in support of this measure.

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 H.B. No. 657, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.