Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2004, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the care and maintenance of veterans cemeteries on the island of Maui.

Your Committee finds that the cost of care and maintenance of veterans cemeteries on Maui has risen two hundred per cent but state assistance for these cemeteries has increased only eleven per cent from 1981 to 2003.

Your Committee has decided to honor these brave men and women by supporting funding for maintenance of these veterans cemeteries. Due consideration will be given to the funding amount pending final disposition of the state budget.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2004, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.