STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 1596
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2025
RE: H.C.R. No. 62
H.D. 1
Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2025
State of Hawaii
Madame:
Your Committee on Public Safety, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 62 entitled:
"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE SHERIFF DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT FLY THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF FAMILIES OF AMERICAN PRISONERS AND MISSING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA'S FLAG YEAR-ROUND AT THE STATE CAPITOL,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one individual.
Your Committee finds that it is important for the legislature to honor prisoners of war, and, there are many different groups of citizens that the legislature must honor. Your Committee believes that to be fair and equitable, the legislature cannot choose one party to uphold above all others, through a year-round flag raising.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by replacing the request to fly the POW-MIA flag year-round with the request to fly the flag on the same six national holidays as dictated in U.S. Public Law 105-85.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 62, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 62, H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety,
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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