Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2457, H.D. 1, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to emphasize the relevance federal military installations and investment to the objectives and policy of the state plan.

Comments on this measure were received from the Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism Office of Planning.

Your Committees find that the presence of federal defense and security forces and agencies in the State are important state concerns and should be recognized statutorily as such.

Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Transportation and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2457, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2457, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.