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. 833-10
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2010
RE: S.B. No. 2139
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Fifth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2010
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2139, S.D. 2, 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 interment of the veteran's remains in a state veterans cemetery.
The Office of Veterans Services (OVS) and Oahu Veterans Council supported this bill.
Your Committee finds that the federal government provides burial benefits for veterans who die without a next of kin or other person claiming the veteran's remains, where there are insufficient resources to cover burial and funeral costs, and the veteran served honorably during any war or was discharged because of a service-connected disability. These funds are made available to provide a proper burial and avoid the risk that an indigent veteran who dies alone, without immediate family members, is interred in a pauper's grave.
This bill will allow the OVS Director to ensure that the service of our veterans is honored by a proper burial in a veterans cemetery.
Your Committee has amended this bill by replacing its substance with that of H.B. No. 1943, H.D. 1. As amended, the bill adds "inurnment" to the alternatives for the disposition of a veteran's remains.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2139, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2139, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair |
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