Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1909 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to recognize the service of those individuals who serve our nation in the Hawaii National Guard (Guard) by making these individuals eligible to receive special number plates that include the words "HAWAII NATIONAL GUARD."

The Office of Veterans Services supported the intent of this bill. The City and County of Honolulu Department of Customer Services opposed this measure.

Your Committees find that Guard members deserve to be eligible for these special number plates and that this might serve as a recruiting and retention incentive for the Guard.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1909 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.