STAND. COM. REP. NO.  256-10

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1943

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1943 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide services for veterans by requiring the Director of the Office of Veterans' Services to ensure that the remains of deceased veterans found to be indigent at the time of death and without surviving immediate family members are buried in a state veterans cemetery.

 

     The Office of Veterans' Services and Oahu Veterans Council supported this bill.

 

     Your Committee finds that every veteran who served in the United States military deserves a decent burial and military honors if they can be provided.  Unfortunately, there are a significant number of veterans with no family to ensure the proper implementation of their final arrangements.  This measure seeks to assist those veterans by ensuring recognition of their service in the disposition of their remains.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by including cremation services and inurnment in a state veterans cemetery as an option.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1943, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1943, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair