STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2109

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2605

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, 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 Department of Defense to support operational mission readiness activities of the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol, including facility maintenance, not funded by the National Civil Air Patrol.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense Civil Defense Division, Department of Defense, Hawaii Wing Civil Air Patrol, Hawaii Chapter (HI-1) of the National Association for Uniformed Services, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol provides assistance with homeland security, aerospace education, cadet programs, and emergency services that include search and rescues missions, disaster relief, and tsunami warnings to coastal and remote areas.  As such, the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol is critical to the State's emergency management agencies.  This measure ensures that the Hawaii Wing of the Civil Air Patrol can continue its critical services in emergency management.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2605 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair