Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2449 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to make an appropriation to the Department of Defense to repair the roof hangar at the Hawaii Wing Headquarters of the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol.

Your Committee finds that the hangar is used to coordinate emergency services that include search and rescue, tsunami warning, damage assessment, counter-drug reconnaissance, and aerial homeland security task missions. The facility is vitally important to ensuring that these activities can take place in a safe and appropriate environment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2449, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2449, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.