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. 3213 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and make an appropriation for the maintenance of West Hawaii Veterans Cemetery in Hawaii.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Advisory Board on Veterans Services, Office of Veterans Services, one Hawaii County Council Member, Kona Young Farmers, and Lions Club of Kona.

This measure is intended to provide West Hawaii veterans with a functional and appealing veterans cemetery. The appropriation is in addition to the $22,500 provided by the State to operate two veterans cemeteries on the Big Island. However, the cost of the needed maintenance and repair work was underestimated.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making an unspecified appropriation.

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. 3213, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3213, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.