STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1409

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 112

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 112 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO LIGHT UP CITY HALL WITH PURPLE LIGHTS ON AUGUST 7 OF EACH YEAR IN HONOR OF NATIONAL PURPLE HEART DAY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the City and County of Honolulu to light up City Hall with purple lights on August 7 of each year in honor of National Purple Heart Day.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.

Your Committees find that the Purple Heart is one of the most respected and recognized decorations awarded to service numbers who have been killed or injured in military service to the United States. Your Committees further find that it is proper to honor the sacrifices and meritorious acts of service members who have received the Purple Heart by lighting up Honolulu Hale with purple lights each year on National Purple Heart Day.

Your Committees have amended this measure by 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 Energy and Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 112, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 112, S.D. 1.

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

________________________________ BRANDON J.C. ELEFANTE, Chair

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair