STAND. COM. REP. NO. 724-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2444

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2444 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MILITIA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Establish an Assistant Adjutant General position for a newly established joint headquarters component of the State National Guard;

(2) Raise the maximum grade level for this position and comparable positions in the Army and Air Force divisions from a brigadier general to a major general; and

(3) Require the joint headquarters to be staffed, organized, and equipped as directed by the secretaries of the Army and Air Force.

The Adjutant General submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2444, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2444, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair