STAND. COM. REP. NO. 598

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 1869

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1869 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol for operational expenses.

Testimony in favor of the measure was submitted by the Department of Defense, Oahu Civil Defense Agency, Oahu Veterans Council, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and an individual.

Your Committee finds the Hawaii civil defense system, supported by the patrol, is crucial to the civil defense warning system for a tsunami. Additionally, the patrol performs other important missions for civil defense such as air reconnaissance, aerial damage assessments, inland search and rescue, and small cargo delivery.

Although the department raised funding concerns, your Committee has decided not to amend the measure but leave in the $100,000 appropriation for further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1869 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 Education and Military Affairs,

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair