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. 1590, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide an alternative procedure for the Office of Veterans' Services (OVS) to pay for burial and funeral services for deceased World War II Filipino American veterans.

Specifically, this bill requires the Director of OVS, at the request of a deceased Filipino American veteran's survivor or interested party, to make payment directly to a licensed provider of mortuary or crematory services in the State for the cost of:

The Department of Defense-OVS, WW II Fil-Am Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary Hawaii Chapter, and a concerned veteran testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring a "World War II Filipino American veteran" to have been a resident of the State of Hawaii at the time of the veteran's death to be eligible for the benefits of this Act.

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. 1590, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1590, H.D. 2.