Bill Text: HI HCR216 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Disabled Veterans; Commissaries

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-1)

Status: (Passed) 2012-05-03 - (H) Resolution adopted in final form. [HCR216 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR216-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1430-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 216

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 216 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON MILITARY PERSONNEL TO ACT FAVORABLY ON H.R. 2148 AND TO REPORT THE BILL TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR FURTHER ACTION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge:

 

(1)  The United States House of Representatives Armed Services Committee and Subcommittee on Military Personnel to act favorably on H.R. 2148 and to report the bill to the United States House of Representatives for further action; and

 

(2)  The Defense Commissary Agency to allow all disabled veterans, regardless of an assigned disability rating, authorized access to commissary facilities.

 

     The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii testified in support of the measure.

 

 

 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 216 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

 

 

		____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair