STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3443

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1879

H.D. 1

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds so that the Office of Veterans' Services may continue to publish and distribute its quarterly newsletter.

Your Committee finds that the Office of Veterans' Services newsletter provides essential information to the veteran-related community, and should receive state financial support. The Office of Veterans' Services also reported that newsletter costs are currently budgeted for only the 2005-2006 fiscal year, and consequently, if no additional funding is appropriated, newsletter publication and distribution will cease as of June, 2006.

Your Committee has amended the measure by:

(1) Deleting the specific amount appropriated and leaving the amount unspecified;

(2) Changing the effective date from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2050; and

(3) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1879, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair