STAND. COM. REP. NO.  20-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2197

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 2197 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AT POHAKULOA TRAINING AREA ON THE ISLAND OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to finance warehouse capital improvements for the Hawaii Army National Guard at the Pohakuloa Training Area on the island of Hawaii.

The Department of Defense and the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2197 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Water & Land.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

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KEN ITO, Chair