Report Title:

Policy Advisory Board on Veterans Services

Description:

Requires governor, in making appointments, to ensure that members of the policy advisory board on veterans' services represent all minority viewpoints, including issues of concern to women veterans.  Requires one member to be a representative of the Yukio Okutsu veterans home.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	632
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to policy advisory board on veterans' services.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 363-3.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  There shall be a policy advisory board on veterans' services within the office of veterans' services.  The board shall consist of nine members appointed by the governor as provided in section 26-34.  In making appointments, the governor shall ensure that members represent all minority viewpoints, including issues of concern to women veterans.  Five members shall be veterans[,] and one member shall be a representative of the Yukio Okutsu veterans home.  There shall be at least one member residing in each of the counties of Maui and Kauai.  The county of Hawaii shall be represented by two members, one member shall reside in east Hawaii and one member shall reside in west Hawaii.  Four members shall reside in the city and county of Honolulu.  The director of health, the director of human services, the director of labor and industrial relations, and the adjutant general shall serve as ex-officio non-voting members.  The director for the office of veterans' services shall serve as an ex-officio voting member.  The chairperson of the board shall be elected by the majority of the board.  The members shall serve without compensation but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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