STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2821

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2605

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2605 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol to support operational mission readiness activities, including facilities maintenance.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will provide funds for the activities of the Civil Air Patrol and the repair of its aging facility.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation to an unspecified sum;

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of consistency and style.

     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. 2605, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2605, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair