Bill Text: HI SB880 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Veterans' Funerals; Protests

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB880 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB880-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 81

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 880

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 880 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO VETERANS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to prohibit any person from carrying out a demonstration at a state or county veteran's cemetery except as approved by the council of the county in which the cemetery is located.  This measure specifies the time periods before and after a funeral, memorial service, or ceremony for which a council may grant approval for a demonstration.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from one government agency and three private entities.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from one national organization.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure is intended to apply to funeral services at veterans' cemeteries.  Recent incidents on the mainland have involved protests at funerals of fallen military servicemen in a show of protest to war.  Your Committee believes that respect for the deceased should be observed within a reasonable amount of time before, during, or after a funeral, memorial service, or ceremony.

 

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 880 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

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

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair