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.C.R. No. 15 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request that the Department of Defense present a homeland security plan to the Legislature.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals. Comments on this measure were received from the State Department of Defense.

Your Committees find that a homeland security plan is necessary for state security, and that the Legislature should be a part of its development process.

Your Committees have amended this measure by replacing its language with that of its companion, Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 12, which your Committees amended and reported to the House of Representatives on March 24, 2006, which expands the scope of the plan and reflects the total funding amount as $80,000,000.

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 concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 15, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 15, S.D. 1.