STAND. COM. REP. NO 75

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 686

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 686 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A WAR MEMORIAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for the planning, design, and construction of a memorial honoring the veterans of the Persian Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation New Dawn, Global War on Terrorism, Homeland Defense, and Operation Noble Eagle, and those who have protected our borders by land, sea, and air and for replicas to be placed on each neighbor island.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and State Office of Veterans Services.

     Your Committee finds that the Legislature enacted Act 139, Session Laws of Hawaii 2013, directing the development of a plan to establish a war memorial.  Accordingly, this measure appropriates the funds to build and establish a memorial and replica memorials on each neighbor island, as recommended by the Gulf War Memorial task force.

     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. 686 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