Bill Text: HI HB459 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Civil Air Patrol; Funding; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB459 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB459-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  549

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 459

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Economic Revitalization, Business, & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 459 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HAWAII CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to maintain the essential disaster relief, search and rescue, homeland security, and medical emergency transport services provided by the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol by appropriating funds to help defray the operational expenses of the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol.

 

     The 66^th Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill.

 

     Hawaii's Civil Air Patrol is an unpaid, all-volunteer organization that provides various vital services to the people of Hawaii, including flying disaster relief and search and rescue missions, providing support for homeland security operations, and performing medical transports.  Maintaining the readiness capability of this organization will enhance their ability to assist the people of Hawaii when they are called upon in the future.

 

     Your Committee finds that appropriating funds for the expenses of the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol will strengthen its efforts in, among other things, providing better training for search and rescue activities, performing tsunami warning duties, and offering increased educational opportunities to cadets.  While your Committee understands the economic situation currently facing the State, sustaining the Hawaii Civil Air Patrol is an important public safety issue that deserves further consideration. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2112, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 H.B. No. 459, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 459, 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,

 

 

		____________________________ ANGUS L.K. MCKELVEY, Chair