Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1029 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide a reliable and effective method of communicating important information to Hawaii's over 114,000 military veterans and their families by appropriating an unspecified sum for the Department of Defense's (DOD) Office of Veterans' Services to publish a Hawaii veterans' newsletter.

The Office of Veterans' Services, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) - Department of Hawaii, DAV - Honolulu Chapter No. 3, National Association for Uniformed Services - Hawaiian Chapter, Oahu Veterans Council, and two concerned individuals testified in support of this bill. DOD submitted comments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1029 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.