Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2399, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for an ambulance crew and operating expenses for emergency ambulance services at the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates on the island of Hawaii.

The County of Hawaii Fire Department, two members of the Hawaii County Council, Ocean View Community Association, Inc., Hawaiian Ranchos Road Maintenance Corp., Ocean View Neighborhood Watch, Ocean View Community Development Corporation, Friends of Kahuku Park, and numerous concerned individuals supported this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2399, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2399, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.