Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2004 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the care and maintenance of veterans cemeteries in the County of Maui.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Office of Veterans Services, Advisory Board on Veterans Services, and Mayor of the County of Maui.

This measure appropriates $80,000 out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii to provide for the care and maintenance of veterans cemeteries located in the County of Maui.

Your Committee finds that veterans cemeteries serve the purpose of honoring those who have admirably served our country in the armed forces of the United States, and that the lack of care and maintenance of the veterans cemeteries diminishes the intended tribute and respect to these individuals.

Your Committee further finds that the cost of care and maintenance of the veterans cemeteries in the County of Maui has dramatically increased over the past twenty years, requiring an increase in state assistance.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making an unspecified appropriation, in deference to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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. 2004, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2004, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.