STAND. COM. REP. NO.  476-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2489

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2489 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address the needs of all veterans, with a focus on female veterans who served on active duty for the full period they were activated, by appropriating funds for the establishment of one full-time permanent Veterans Services Counselor IV position in the Office of Veterans' Services.

The State Adjutant General and Director of the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency; Office of Veterans' Services; State Veterans Advisory Board; Women's Military Task Force Committee; Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest and Hawaii; the Sex Abuse Treatment Center; and a concerned individual supported this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2489 and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair