Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2649 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to contribute to the funding of a new Pearl Harbor memorial museum and visitor center.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Advisory Board on Veterans Services, the Office of Veterans Services, Oahu Veterans Council, the Disabled American Veterans, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that the Pearl Harbor memorial museum and visitor center is steeped in historical significance and continues to be a leading tourist attraction in Hawaii, and remains a significant contributor to the ongoing economic health of the State. The current facility that houses the museum and visitor center is overcrowded and structurally unsound. This measure would authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds to contribute to the construction of a new museum and visitor center.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make nonsubstantive, technical changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2649, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2649, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.