Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2043 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to renovate and expand the Military Aviation Museum of the Pacific on Ford Island on Oahu.

Your Committee finds that Hawaii has played a very important and historic role in the development of aviation. The new Military Aviation Museum of the Pacific promises to be a place to showcase the importance of military aviation and the critical role aviation has played in the development of Hawaii and the Pacific region. Along with the U.S.S. Arizona, the U.S.S. Missouri and the U.S.S. Bowfin, the new museum will not only memorialize the circle of events that occurred during Pearl Harbor, but will also tell the story of our country's efforts in Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War.

Your Committee has amended the bill by providing a blank appropriation for the purpose of furthering discussion and pending final disposition of the state budget. Your Committee has also made technical changes that have no substantive effect.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2043, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2043, S.D. 1.