SR2 SD1 SSCR3165

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3165

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.R. No. 2

S.D. 1

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 S.R. No. 2 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO PRESENT A HOMELAND SECURITY PLAN TO THE LEGISLATURE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to call on the Department of Defense to use its available funding to develop a comprehensive Homeland Security Plan in conjunction with state and local government agencies and present it to the Legislature for approval.

Comments to this measure were received from the State Department of Defense.

Your Committees find that the development of a comprehensive Homeland Security Plan that incorporates state and local government agencies is necessary to best protect Hawaii's people from terrorist incidents.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Noting an increased amount of available federal funding from $45,000,000 to $80,000,000;

(2) Setting forth three additional elements to the Homeland Security Plan which include the identification of necessary infrastructure for potential procurement, and the increase of communications capability and responder capabilities to protect against terrorist attacks; and

(3) 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 concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 2, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 2, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Transportation and Government Operations,

____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair		____________________________ NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair