Bill Text: HI HCR34 | 2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hawaii Emergency Responders Memorial
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-04-25 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HCR34 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2014-HCR34-Amended.html
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H.C.R. NO. |
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TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2014 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES TO WORK WITH THE HAWAII EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION AND OTHER RELEVANT ORGANIZATIONS TO PLAN AND CONSTRUCT THE HAWAII EMERGENCY RESPONDERS MEMORIAL.
WHEREAS, the State of Hawaii is fortunate to have a multitude of extraordinary emergency responders who risk their lives to serve Hawaii's residents and visitors; and
WHEREAS, the people of the State of Hawaii are enormously grateful for the invaluable contributions and meritorious acts of service by these brave men and women and are greatly saddened when an emergency responder dies in the line of duty; and
WHEREAS, in 2010, the Legislature adopted a Concurrent Resolution requesting the Department of Accounting and General Services to work with other individuals to plan and construct the Hawaii State Law Enforcement Memorial on the grounds of the Hawaii State Capitol; and
WHEREAS, during the following year, a state law was enacted that mandated the construction of a State Law Enforcement Memorial in the Capitol District; and
WHEREAS, these two pieces of legislation honor those individuals who serve solely in the law enforcement field; and
WHEREAS, a diversity of professions fall within the emergency response field, and every emergency responder deserves to be recognized for their tremendous contributions and profound sacrifices; and
WHEREAS, with the construction of the Hawaii Emergency Responders Memorial, the Legislature will forever honor the service of those emergency responders who died in the line of duty; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2014, the Senate concurring, that the Department of Accounting and General Services is requested to work with the Hawaii Emergency Medical Services Association and other relevant organizations to plan and construct the Hawaii Emergency Responders Memorial; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislature requests that:
(1) The memorial honor emergency responders, including emergency responders employed by private companies contracted with a government agency to provide emergency services, who died in the line of duty in the State of Hawaii while serving in the city, county, state, or federal levels of government, or serving as an emergency responder contracted by the government;
(2) The memorial call attention to the bravery and everyday public service that emergency responders demonstrate in the line of duty;
(3) The memorial be perpetual; and
(4) Private funds be solicited and used for the memorial's construction; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Hawaii Emergency Medical Services Association and Comptroller.
Hawaii Emergency Responders Memorial
