Bill Text: HI SB2139 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Veterans Rights and Benefits; Burial
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2010-04-16 - (S) Act 027, 4/16/2010 (Gov. Msg. No. 485). [SB2139 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2139-Amended.html
STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1174-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: S.B. No. 2139
S.D. 2
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2139, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide indigent veterans without immediate family members with a proper burial by requiring the Director of the Office of Veterans' Services to ensure the burial or cremation and inurnment of the veteran's remains in a state veterans cemetery.
The Office of Veterans Services testified in support of this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by making it effective upon its approval.
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. 2139, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2139, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair |
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