Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1029, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to enable the Office of Veterans' Services to publish a Hawaii veterans' newsletter and update the veterans' database.

Your Committee finds that presently there is no reliable and effective method of communicating important information to Hawaii's military veterans and their families. This measure will ensure that Hawaii's military veterans receive important and timely information relating to available outreach services, upcoming veteran-related events, and the dates of various military ceremonies.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the amount to be appropriated to $30,000.

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 H.B. No. 1029, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1029, S.D. 2.