STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2976

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 20

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts, to which was referred S.R. No. 20 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES TO WORK WITH THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION AND OTHER INTERESTED ORGANIZATIONS TO PLAN AND CONSTRUCT A HAWAII EMERGENCY RESPONDER AND GOOD SAMARITAN MEMORIAL,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to honor the State's fallen emergency first responders and Good Samaritans by requesting the construction of a Hawaii Emergency Responder and Good Samaritan Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Accounting and General Services, Maui County Paramedics Association, and nine individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from one individual.

     Your Committees find that numerous states and municipalities have firefighter, emergency medical technician, or lifeguard memorials.  Despite the various memorials in Hawaii, not all emergency first responders who have lost their lives in the line of duty are covered by these memorials.  Furthermore, Good Samaritans also make the ultimate sacrifice of their lives in service to their communities.  To recognize the service of these individuals, this measure honors emergency first responders and Good Samaritans who have sacrificed their lives by establishing a Hawaii Emergency Responder and Good Samaritan Memorial, at the direction of the Department of Accounting and General Services, working alongside the Hawaii Emergency Medical Services Association and other interested organizations.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting the name of the National EMS Memorial Service's planned aeromedical memorial;

     (2)  Amending the listed location of the National EMS Memorial Service's planned aeromedical memorial to Littleton, Colorado; and

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

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 20, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 20, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs and Technology and the Arts,

____________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair