Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1879 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to better serve Hawaii's veterans by appropriating funds for the Office of Veterans' Services (OVS) of the state Department of Defense to publish the Hawaii Veterans' Newsletter.

OVS, Advisory Board on Veterans Services, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date from July 1, 2006, to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

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 H.B. No. 1879, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 1.