STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1084

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 121

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 121, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to ensure that the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol can readily provide Hawaii residents with necessary disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport services, by appropriating funds to help defray the operational expenses of the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Carswell Ross, Lt. Col., Civil Air Patrol, Commander of the 66th Composite Squadron, United States Air Force Auxiliary; Herbert T. Kaneshige, Colonel, Deputy Director, Government Relations, Civil Air Patrol, Hawaii Wing, United States Air Force Auxiliary; Darryl Choy, Lt. Col., Director of Personnel, Civil Air Patrol, Hawaii Wing, United States Air Force Auxiliary; and Stanley Y. Fernandez, Sr., Colonel, Civil Air Patrol, Hawaii Wing.

     Your Committee finds that in addition to disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport services, the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol also operates the State's tsunami warning operations.  This measure will help the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol defray its operational expenses and offset declining federal funding to the agency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 121, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair