STAND. COM. REP. NO. 765

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 540

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 540 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to permanently enact provisions relating to residency requirements for burial in veterans cemeteries.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Office of Veterans Affairs.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will ensure that eligible service members of the Armed Services and their dependents will continue to have a local place to rest in peace.

     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 S.B. No. 540 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