Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1479 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make appropriations for the maintenance of veterans cemeteries in the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the State Department of Defense, Office of Veterans Affairs Advisory Board on Veterans Services, Hawaii County Department of Parks and Recreation, Oahu Veterans Council, Disabled American Veterans, Hawaii Chapter American EX-POWS, and a Kauai County Council Member.

Your Committee believes this measure pays tribute to the nation's veterans, particularly those in Hawaii, who have sacrificed for the service of their country. Words of gratitude would be patronizing and superficial without action as a symbol of our gratitude. This measure takes that action.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding an appropriation for the City and County of Honolulu.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1479, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1479, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.