Bill Text: HI SCR106 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Disabled Veterans; Military Commissary and Exchange Store Privileges

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-04 - (H) Referred to PBM, FIN, referral sheet 59 [SCR106 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR106-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3085

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 106

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 106 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING HAWAII'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF H.R. 2148, 112TH CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION, TO EXTEND MILITARY COMMISSARY AND EXCHANGE STORE PRIVILEGES TO VETERANS WITH A COMPENSABLE SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY AND THEIR DEPENDENTS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request Hawaii's Congressional delegation to vote in favor of H.R. 2148, 112th Congress, First Session, to extend military commissary and exchange store privileges to veterans with a compensable service-connected disability and their dependents.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women; Military Officers Association of America, Hawaii Chapter; and three individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that only veterans with a one hundred percent disability rating are extended privileges at Defense Commissary Agency facilities such as military exchanges.  Your Committee believes that all veterans with a service-connected disability, regardless of the extent of disability, should have the same privileges. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the term "dependents" to "family members", in keeping with the terms of the military veterans benefits regulations; and

 

     (2)  Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 106, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 106, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair