Capital improvements pertaining to the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol Wing Headquarters.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the civil air patrol provides necessary disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport services to local and national organizations. As a peacetime auxiliary of the Air Force, the Hawaii civil air patrol remains an active volunteer organization with approximately five hundred fifty members, including two hundred cadets. The Hawaii wing has three primary missions: search and rescue, aerospace education, and the cadet program. It is also an active participant in counter-drug operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency, flying over one hundred seventy-nine missions in 2003.

The legislature further finds that maintenance and repair projects are a necessity for successful rescue missions and the Hawaii civil air patrol depends on state funding to meet its basic needs. The purpose of this Act is to make an appropriation for the Hawaii civil air patrol to repair the roof hangar at the Hawaii wing headquarters.

SECTION 2. The following sums or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to finance the project listed in this Act, are hereby appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii for fiscal year 2006-2007:

Hawaii civil air patrol, Oahu

Design $1,000

Construction $74,000

Total funding $75,000

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of defense for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. The appropriation made for the capital improvement project authorized by this Act shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made; provided that all moneys from the appropriation unencumbered as of June 30, 2008, shall lapse as of that date.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2006.