STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1555

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 181

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 181, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to honor individuals whose high school educations were interrupted as a result of:

 

(1)  Compulsory induction into active service in the United States Armed Services; or

 

(2)  Wartime practices, such as internment during World War II,

 

by delaying until June 30, 2020, the repeal of the Department of Education program that awards high school diplomas to these individuals.

 

     The State Office of Veterans' Services, State Veterans of Foreign Wars, Hawaii State Teachers Association, and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Education commented on this measure.

 

 

 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to June 29, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 181, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 181, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair