STAND. COM. REP. NO.  5

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 195

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 195 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure public safety by appropriating $60,000 to support the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol in its performance of vital local and national services such as disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport.

     The Department of Defense and Hawaii Wing Civil Air Patrol supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Changing the appropriation amount to $1; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 195, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 195, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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CINDY EVANS, Chair