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. 2045 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol (CAP).

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Hawaii Department of Defense.

This measure would enable the CAP to resume flight operations and training in support of State and county civil defense agencies. This support involves an airborne warning system to beaches and coastline communities in at the outset of a tsunami or hurricane. Thus, the CAP plays a vital role in civil defense.

Your Committee has amended this measure to provide the appropriation on a matching basis.

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. 2045, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2045, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.