SENATE BILL REPORT

SJM 8003

BYSenators Conner, Metcalf, Anderson, Pullen, Hansen and Garrett

Memorial to discover location of MIAs.

Senate Committee on Governmental Operations

Senate Hearing Date(s):February 25, 1987

Majority Report:  Do pass.

      Signed by Senators Halsan, Chairman; Garrett, Vice Chairman; DeJarnatt, McCaslin, Talmadge, Zimmerman.

Senate Staff:Eugene Green (786-7405); Sam Thompson (786-7754)

                  March 5, 1987

AS PASSED SENATE, MARCH 4, 1987

BACKGROUND:

There are still 2,426 soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, one Coast Guardsman, and 42 civilians still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War.  Sixty-one of the missing are from the State of Washington.  The issue of servicemen and women missing in Indochina is one that all veterans agree must be resolved.

SUMMARY:

Your memorialists respectfully pray that the Congress of the United States and the Administration develop a program to uncover where servicemen and women are being held in Indochina, and to bring these Americans home.

Fiscal Note:      none requested

Senate Committee - Testified: Dolores Alfond, Ann Holland, Marsha L. Welch, Jerri L. Gowdy, Dorothy Brown, John M. Libby, Sr., Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Washington; Bill Anderson, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Department of Washington; Michael W. Booth, National Vietnam Veterans Coalition; Geraldine Roselli, R.A.N.S.O.M.; Carl Rice, R.A.N.S.O.M.; Carol Gedevian, People for Live P.O.W.; Susan Allen, People for Live P.O.W.