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. 2043, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds, as yet unspecified, for the restoration and exhibits of a new air museum to be built on Ford Island, Oahu.

The measure further provides that such funding is subject to the Military Aviation Museum of the Pacific providing an unspecified amount for this purpose Your Committee defers to your Committee on Finance to determine the appropriate amounts to insert into the measure.

Your Committee finds that a new Military Aviation Museum of the Pacific will not only showcase United States military aviation in the Pacific, but will also perpetuate the important role of aviation in our country's history. The planned museum will memorialize the events (i.e. the U.S.S. Arizona, the U.S.S. Missouri, and the U.S.S. Bowfin) that occurred during the attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as pay tribute to our country's efforts in the South Pacific and Asia.

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. 2043, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.