Bill Text: HI SB2139 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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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

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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,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair