STAND. COM. REP. NO. 252

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1481
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1481 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII
     ISLAND VETERANS MEMORIAL INC.,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate an unspecified
sum as a grant-in-aid to Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc., to
build a veterans center in Hawaii county.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the County of Maui, the Office of Veterans Services, the
Oahu Veterans Council, the Disabled American Veterans Department
of Hawaii, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Big Island Veterans
Association, the Big Island Retired Military Association, the
Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Combined Veterans Center, the
Hawaii Island Veterans Memorial Inc., The Hawaii County Veterans
Advisory Committee, and three individuals.

     Your Committee finds that there are over 14,000 veterans on
the Island of Hawaii who will benefit from this one-stop center.
After many years of effort by dedicated veterans, the land has
been secured and plans completed for a comprehensive center that
will serve as a gathering point for Big Island veterans.

     Your Committee strongly supports this measure and the
services it will provide to those who have proudly served their
country.  Your Committee has amended this measure to delete the

 
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specific sums appropriated with the intent to defer this
determination to the Committee on Ways and Means.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1481, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1481, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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