STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2317

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: S.B. No. 2882

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2882 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PERTAINING TO THE CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol (CAP) to repair the roof hangar at the Hawaii wing headquarters.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from State Civil Defense, Hawaii CAP, and two individuals.

The Hawaii CAP provides necessary disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport services to local and national organizations. As a peacetime auxiliary of the Air Force, the Hawaii CAP remains an active volunteer organization with approximately five hundred fifty members, including two hundred cadets. The Hawaii wing has three primary missions: search and rescue, aerospace education, and the cadet program. It is also an active participant in counter-drug operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency, flying over one hundred seventy-nine missions in 2003.

Your Committee finds that maintenance and repair of hangars are a necessity for successful rescue missions and the Hawaii CAP depends on state funding to meet its basic needs.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2882 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 Transportation and Government Operations,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair