STAND. COM. REP. NO.  284-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2491

      H.D. 1

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. 2491 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VIETNAM WAR COMMEMORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to honor the men and women who served and to reflect on and appreciate the sacrifices they made during the Vietnam War by appropriating funds to commemorate the 50^th Anniversary of the Vietnam War with programs, ceremonies, and activities.

The Department of Defense, Office of Veterans' Services, Go For Broke Association, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the specified sum of the appropriation to facilitate further discussion.

     Should the Committee on Finance deliberate this measure further, your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts respectfully requests that it consider appropriating $300,000 for the purpose of commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Vietnam War.

     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. 2491, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2491, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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